"I woke up with no memory and a child growing in my belly.
The kind healer calls me Elif, and the handsome merchant Sinan looks at me like I'm his salvation. I should be grateful for this peaceful life, for gentle touches and soft words.
But my dreams are full of dark eyes and consuming darkness. My hands know how to kill even when my mind doesn't remember why. And when the Shadow Lord comes for me—claiming I'm his wife, his property, his obsession—my body recognizes what my heart has forgotten.
He says I belong to him. He says I'm carrying his heir. He says I fled from him once, but he'll never let me go again. I don't remember loving him. But when he touches me, I burn. When he commands me, I obey.
And when he takes me back to his realm of shadows and sin, I realize the most terrifying truth of all: I want to remember why I was his. Even if it destroys the woman I've become."
"I stepped into the Shadow Court to save my brother. I didn't expect to walk out as the bride of the monster who killed the man I loved.
Kaan is the ruthless Lord of Shadows—ancient, merciless, and terrifyingly beautiful. He murdered Aslan with a smile on his lips and my name on his tongue. Then he claimed me as payment for a blood debt.
Now, I'm his wife in black silk and silver chains. Owned. Caged. Watched.
And on our wedding night, he doesn't ask. He takes—my body, my breath, my resistance—until I break. His mouth. His rules. His shadows wrap around me like a noose.
I swore I'd kill him. Instead, I'm moaning his name in the dark.
Because monsters like him don't make love. They unmake you. But Kaan doesn't want love. He wants devotion. He wants me to beg.
And the worst part? I think I will.
This is a dark romantasy and the first book in the Kingdom of Shadow trilogy, set in the same universe as the Kingdom of Light trilogy."
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