Sold into aristocratic slavery by her callous stepmother and discarded by a fiancé who chose her stepsister, Elara faces execution in a vampire-dominated empire. Armed only with the intoxicating scent of her rare bloodline, she entices a brooding nobleman to buy her freedom, desperate for any shield against the predators circling her family estate.
To her shock, her mysterious benefactor is none other than the feared Vampire Sovereign, the supreme overlord before whom her treacherous ex-fiancé grovels on his knees. Yet their blood pact unleashes a dormant curse that could incinerate his immortal reign. To survive the royal court, Elara must awaken her forgotten lineage and conquer the crown that discarded her.
