In the obsidian depths of his sanctum, she is the one light he cannot extinguish. A village woman taken captive, she learns that resistance only stokes his hunger, that every whispered refusal draws his attention closer, until she cannot distinguish between the chains that bind her wrists and the ache that binds her body to his will.

He is the Shadow Prince, and he has claimed her for the rite that will remake them both. What begins as captivity becomes something more intricate, more treacherous, as his hands teach her pleasures she never imagined surrender could bring. Each night in his darkness, she discovers how thoroughly she can be undone, how completely she can want the very thing that once terrified her. The bonding approaches, and with it the moment she will be marked as his in ways no law could annul and no distance could sever.

She came to him fighting. She remains because she burns. Between his command and her craving, between the throne he rules and the woman he cannot release, something is forming that neither of them prepared for, something that threatens the foundations of his power and the last fragments of her resistance in equal measure.

A full-length dark fantasy erotic romance.