Maelyn survived the Heart of the Gods. She never expected to come home carrying the thing that wakes it.

Bound to Darius Nightborn by a Blood Bond no law of either Realm permits, Mae returns to the Fairy Court to find her father dying beneath a Curse older than memory — and Darius fighting a hunger in his own blood that he's certain will end the same way every story about his family's darkest bloodline ends.

He's wrong about why.

As the Curse spreads and the stars themselves drift from their courses, Mae, Darius, and Mae's twin sister Aurora — who has held the dying Realm together alone for a year, and has no intention of trusting it to anyone now — race toward a truth the Fairy Court buried generations ago: a Witch Queen remembered as a monster, a war fought and lost in secret, and a bargain that was never the betrayal history made of it.

Aurora has her own battle, fought in cold silences and colder competence against Darius's cousin Caelith, a Fae Witch she's sworn she has no time to want.

Some legends are lies built to protect the people who can't survive the truth. Mae is about to learn exactly what she's willing to give to rewrite one — before the same darkness that broke a king once before comes to collect what she owes.

For readers who love fated mates, forbidden Blood Bonds, and a found-family fighting to save a dying kingdom — plus a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers swordswoman-and-rogue romance that refuses to stay in the background.