A bride who was never a sacrifice. A family that sold her twice. A god waking under the mountain.
Ottilie Blythe is bonded, adored by the ghoul staff, and politically radioactive. Then the Order of the Dawn arrives to liberate the stolen daughter of Harrow's End, and she has to go home, where her mother still weeps on cue, the roof is new, and the neighbors can't meet her eyes.
Crispin, the court physician, is the only one who knows her blood is changing, and not knowing whether it's blooming or killing her is eating him alive.
Emeric, the lord who signs for everything, is sitting on a three-hundred-year secret with her name in it.
And the rescue the Dawn is offering is a harvest wearing sun iconography.
To survive, Ottilie has to face the one thing worse than the vampire court: the family that raised her as livestock. Her despair is exactly what the thing under the mountain has waited three centuries to drink. And the man she trusted most signed the first contract.
Cataloged as an object by men who call it holiness, Ottilie finds the floor of herself is stone, not sand, and stops being anyone's property for good.
Tropes: Why Choose Romance • Vampire Romance • Hades and Persephone • Touch Her and Die • Found Family • Gothic Fantasy Romance
Heat Level: Dark-Explicit
Tone: Dark, Emotional
Series Type: Book 2 of 3
Ending: Cliffhanger
POV: Multi-POV, First Person, Present Tense
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Ottilie Blythe is bonded, adored by the ghoul staff, and politically radioactive. Then the Order of the Dawn arrives to liberate the stolen daughter of Harrow's End, and she has to go home, where her mother still weeps on cue, the roof is new, and the neighbors can't meet her eyes.
Crispin, the court physician, is the only one who knows her blood is changing, and not knowing whether it's blooming or killing her is eating him alive.
Emeric, the lord who signs for everything, is sitting on a three-hundred-year secret with her name in it.
And the rescue the Dawn is offering is a harvest wearing sun iconography.
To survive, Ottilie has to face the one thing worse than the vampire court: the family that raised her as livestock. Her despair is exactly what the thing under the mountain has waited three centuries to drink. And the man she trusted most signed the first contract.
Cataloged as an object by men who call it holiness, Ottilie finds the floor of herself is stone, not sand, and stops being anyone's property for good.
Tropes: Why Choose Romance • Vampire Romance • Hades and Persephone • Touch Her and Die • Found Family • Gothic Fantasy Romance
Heat Level: Dark-Explicit
Tone: Dark, Emotional
Series Type: Book 2 of 3
Ending: Cliffhanger
POV: Multi-POV, First Person, Present Tense
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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