Dead Bride, Burning Heart

Lydia Crane was murdered by her stepmother—but didn't stay dead. She rose as a corpse bride: pale, red-eyed, no heartbeat, no mercy. The world calls her monster. She calls herself survivor. She marries General Cedric Sunderic—a cold soldier who needs a mother for his children. A deal: she raises them, he gives her a home. No love. Just survival. But his family hides a murder. The children's mother didn't die naturally. Oliver, eleven: "She never harmed us." Eileen, seven: "You are the monster!" And the cold general? He takes her hand and says: "Let's go home."