A Deal with the Shadow King: Curse of the Fae, Book 1

She makes a deal with the most dangerous Fae in existence—and somehow, that's not the worst decision she's ever made.

When Mira is dragged into a crumbling Fae realm held together by shadows and old curses, her only way home runs straight through him: Caelum, the Shadow King. Cold. Ruthless. Devastatingly beautiful in the way that predators always are. He has no interest in helping her—until she possesses something he desperately needs.

Their bargain is simple. Their hatred for each other is simpler.

Except nothing about Caelum stays simple. Behind the iron walls he's built around himself lives a king drowning in a curse he didn't choose, carrying a kingdom's worth of grief in hands that could unmake her with a thought. And the longer Mira stays in his shadows, the harder it becomes to remember why she's supposed to despise him.

He watches her like she's a threat. She watches him like he might already be her undoing.

The deal was never supposed to mean anything. But curses have a way of rewriting the rules—and the darkness that once felt like a cage around Caelum begins to feel like the only place Mira has ever truly been seen.

Some bargains cost you everything. Some cost you exactly what you didn't know you wanted to lose.