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Enemies by Blood, Mates by Fate - A Dark Fantasy Romance of Blood Feuds and Fated Mates #972752

di Timdall Skies

TIMDALL SKIES

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She went to the border road to kill him.
He stepped out of the carriage to meet her.
Neither of them survived the introduction unchanged.
And the mark burning under both their skins refuses to let either of them pretend otherwise.

Selene Blackthorn has killed seventeen vampires before this night. She knows the convoy below is not merchants — not with that discipline, not with that spacing, not with the Veyr court's rot clinging to their wool like old stone and expensive lies. She knows the heir is in the second carriage. She knows Thorne's order: kill on sight.
She has her arrow. She has her angle. She has everything she needs.

Then Lucien Veyr steps out of the carriage door into the middle of her ambush — not to escape, not to hide behind his guards, but to meet it — and Selene discovers, against every story the war has told her, that her enemy fights like a man who has been trained not to dominate a room but to end one.
She goes for his throat anyway.
His hand closes around her wrist.
The road disappears.

The mate-mark does not ask permission. It does not care that wolves and vampires have been bleeding each other across disputed border country for half a generation. It does not care that she is the best blade in the Blackthorn pack and he is the heir to the court that fed the war. It ignites beneath her skin like a brand driven under the ribs, and the only thing worse than the fire is what comes with it: for one terrible second, she can feel him. Not thoughts. Not words. Presence — cold, controlled, and as horrified as she is.
Good. Let him be horrified.
They have bigger problems.

Every soul on the border road has just witnessed the impossible. By dawn, the story will outrun both of them. By morning, the feud will no longer belong only to wolves and vampires. It will belong to witness — and witness, once fed, never starves quietly.

Now Selene must enter Noctis Vale — the vampire city built like a blade laid against a cliff's throat — carrying a bond she cannot sever, a bloodline secret she cannot name, and the bone-deep certainty that every curated smile in that court is a knife pointed at something she has not yet identified.
Lucien must contain a court already deciding how to use the mark as a political asset, a king who wants the fate-bond formalized before anyone can refuse it, and the growing, inconvenient truth that the woman who tried to kill him three nights ago is the only person in the palace who does not lie to his face.
What begins as a territorial dispute sealed in blood becomes an excavation of everything both bloodlines buried to keep the war clean: ancient compulsion threads woven so deep into inheritance that those who carry them forgot to call them poison. Witness records sealed beneath a sanctum floor. A mother who ran, and the ring she left behind engraved with words that outlasted every lie told over them.
Witness does not kneel. Witness names.

This is not a love story about enemies who stop being dangerous. It is the story of two people who earned each other's respect in the middle of an ambush and then had to decide, slowly, against every instinct shaped by a war that needed them to stay enemies, whether to trust what the bond showed them when the fighting stopped.

The feud will not end cleanly. The court will not forgive easily. The pack will not forget. But somewhere between a frost-bitten border road and a burning sanctum, Selene Blackthorn stopped being what the war made her and started becoming what she chose.

For readers who want their enemies-to-lovers built on demonstrated competence and reluctant honesty, their heroines lethal before they are soft, their slow burns lit by fury and earned one hard chapter at a time and their love stories strong enough to survive the morning after the world stops burning.
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ISBN:
9791224463658
Formato:
ebook
Editore:
TIMDALL SKIES
Anno di pubblicazione:
2026
Dimensione:
2.64 MB
Protezione:
nessuna
Lingua:
Inglese
Autori:
Timdall Skies