For fans of Sarah J. Maas, Carissa Broadbent, and Jennifer L. Armentrout who want lethal trials, fated mates, blood magic, and a ruthless shadow king.

Bound by blood oath and driven by desperation, Talia Varnell enters the Ruined Lands with one impossible mission: kill the Shadow King or lose her dying brother forever. But the king she was sent to destroy is far more dangerous – and far more irresistible – than the myths ever warned.

As she’s thrown into the Devouring, a brutal series of deadly trials ruled by the Abyss, Talia discovers that something in her blood is waking… and the Shadow King knows it.

Dark magic, forbidden attraction, and a bond neither of them can escape collide in this seductive romantasy where survival means risking her heart, her soul, and the brother she’ll do anything to save.

Read if you love:

fated mates

enemies to lovers

'touch her and die' possessive shadow daddy hero

morally gray love interest

forced proximity

slow-burn high tension

deadly trials