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In the cursed ruins beyond the Veil, scholar Isolde Farrow came looking for a relic. She found the last of the Obsidian Beasts instead, ancient, winged, and starved for a touch that could either save him or destroy her.

Threxian offers a bargain as simple as it is dangerous: share his bed and his power for seven nights, or be claimed forever. Isolde plans to use him and walk away unchanged. She never plans on the way he looks at her like she's the last warm thing left in a world he burned to ash, or on the hunger that starts answering his, night after night, in a ruin that was never supposed to feel like home.

Her own Order calls him a monster marked for destruction. His weakening is the only thing standing between her world and something far older and hungrier, stirring now in the dark below. Every night she stays costs her more of the safe, careful life she was raised to protect, and gives her more of a love she was never supposed to want.