The Queen of All That Dies (#1)
The Queen of Traitors (#2)
In the future, the world is at war.
For the last decade, King Lazuli of the Eastern Empire has systematically taken over the world. No one knows much about him other than a series of impossible facts: he cannot die, he has not aged since the conflict began, and he wants to rule the world.
All Serenity Freeman has known is bloodshed. War has taken away her mother, her home, her safety. As the future emissary of the Western United Nations, the last autonomous region of the globe, she is responsible for forging alliances where she can.
Surrender is on the horizon. The king can taste it; Serenity feels it deep within her bones. There is no other option. Now the two must come face to face. For Serenity, that means confronting the man who’s taken everything from her. For the king, it means meeting the one woman he can’t conquer. But when they meet, something happens. Cruelty finds redemption.
Only in war, everything comes with a price. Especially love.
cw: miscarriage, abuse between MCs, dub-con
“That first moment I saw you,” Montes says, “I felt a jolt right here,” Montes places a hand over his heart, “and I knew with certainty that you were mine.”
“I’m not a possession, something you repeatedly seem to forget.”
“Your heart is, and I wish to own it— I will own it.”
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The heartless king has found his heart after all. It rests beneath my ribcage. God save me, he swapped mine for his when I wasn’t looking. And now we’re stuck— me with the weight of his death count, him with the guilt of my suffering.
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“I’m still debating shooting you,” I say an hour later.
“I know,” Montes says next to me. “My pants have been tight all morning because of it.”
“You are a sick, sick man.”
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