Monster hunter Elara thinks she has captured the most dangerous vampire alive—until the man chained beneath her turns out to be Sevian, the deposed vampire king framed for a massacre.Keeping him alive should be temporary. Trusting him should be impossible.But as Elara uncovers forged bite marks, murdered witnesses, and a conspiracy linking the Holy Court to vampire nobility, she discovers an even darker truth: she was never merely trained to hunt monsters. Her own blood was engineered, stolen, and coveted as the power that can choose a king.Now every faction wants her body, her blood, or her obedience.Sevian is the only one who keeps asking.Bound together by scandal, survival, and a dangerous attraction neither can dismiss as strategy forever, hunter and king must destroy the system that made ownership look holy—and decide whether love can exist without possession.Elara once put a vampire king on a leash.Soon, kingdoms will learn who is really holding the chain.
