Fated Shadows

He looked me in the eye in front of three hundred witnesses and told the world I was not enough. What he didn't know was what I carried when I walked out of that hall-his child, my secret, and a bloodline powerful enough to shatter everything he had built.

I was Aeloria Darkthorne, raised to be the perfect mate for a demon prince-beautiful, cunning, the last heir of the ancient Darkthorne line. But Prince Varian rejected me publicly, and I was exiled to the mortal borderlands, stripped of power and left to survive in silence for three long years.

Until a knock at my door changed everything. My daughter, the child I thought was lost-is alive, hidden, and hunted. The Demon King who orchestrated my rejection, my exile, and my child's disappearance is six weeks away from claiming her first.

Now, I must do the unthinkable: work alongside the man who shattered me. Varian has secrets of his own, and the truth behind his rejection is more dangerous than the lie I've lived with for years.

With assassins on every road, rival factions closing in, and my daughter carrying the power to unite, or destroy-everything, I must embrace the bloodline I once feared and step into the role I was born to claim.

I am no longer the exiled princess. No longer the rejected mate. I am the queen.

But when the man who broke you is the only one standing between your daughter and a king who wants her as a weapon, can you trust him with the one thing you cannot afford to lose?