"You are a beautiful little bird flying inside my cage. Go ahead. Flap your wings. Climb as high as you want. But the higher you go, the deeper into my territory you fall."

Lily was raised to hunt monsters. She was trained to survive the dark, to be cold, and to never look a predator in the eye. But she never prepared for Lucien—the ancient, pure-blood Vampire King whose very presence suffocates the air in her lungs.

Stolen away to his obsidian castle, Lily expects a execution. Instead, she finds an intoxicating nightmare of absolute obsession. Lucien doesn’t want to destroy her; he wants to claim her. He wants to lock her away from the sun, drape his shadows over her pearl skin, and make her so addicted to his ancient blood that she forgets the mortal world ever existed.

As a lethal blood bond seals their fates, the lines between captive and queen completely dissolve. Lily must decide if she will fight the darkness, or step into the wildfire of Lucien's touch to rule the eternal night beside him.

Step into the cage. The King is waiting.