The Shadowbound Bride

A ruthless shadow lord needs a mortal bride to break an ancient curse—and he chooses the one woman who would rather put an arrow through his heart. Kaelin, a fiercely independent huntress from the sunlit valleys beyond Duskveil, is dragged into a palace of living darkness where every corridor pulses with seductive magic. Caught between a world she's lost and a sovereign whose touch ignites something terrifying within her, she must navigate deadly court politics and her own treacherous heart before the binding ritual consumes them both.