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Nadia was born into the most complicated family imaginable, so a rushed arranged marriage was practically a walk in the park. She grew up surrounded by competition, power plays, and people who would do anything to get what they wanted. Nadia was no different. If marrying a complete stranger was what it took to get what she wanted, then so be it. She had no intention of falling in love. Love was a weakness she had sworn never to allow into her life. But her mysterious new husband had other plans. What started as a marriage of convenience was about to become something neither of them expected—and Nadia was about to discover that the one thing she could never control was her own heart.

The Vampire King kidnapped me on my twenty-first birthday. He told me it was the only way to keep me alive. I didn't believe him. Why would I? For twenty-one years, my father raised me to believe vampires were nothing but monsters. My mother died because of them, and I had spent my entire life knowing one thing for certain: I would never become part of their world. Then Lucien Ravencroft found me. The Vampire King. Cold. Ruthless. Untouchable. And apparently, my blood belongs to him. I don't know how. He doesn't know either. All he knows is that his blood is somehow inside me—and now every vampire who discovers the truth wants me dead. So he takes me to his kingdom against my will. I hate him for it. He doesn't trust me. I don't trust him. And yet, the longer I stay in his palace, the more impossible it becomes to deny the strange pull between us. His touch makes my blood burn. His presence makes my heart race. And whenever someone threatens me, the cold king who claims he doesn't care is always the first one standing between me and death. But Lucien doesn't know the truth. Twenty-one years ago, he gave his blood to a dying woman and walked away without ever learning her name. He doesn't know she was my mother. He doesn't know I was the child he unknowingly saved. And he has no idea that bringing me into his kingdom may have awakened something far more dangerous than a blood bond. Because I was never supposed to enter the Vampire King's world. I was never supposed to become his queen. And I'm certainly not supposed to fall in love with him. But some bonds aren't meant to be broken. They are meant to start wars.