Flayed Temptation: Dark Fantasy, Demigods and Dragons (Temptation Chronicles)

A goddess who has watched countless mortal love stories unfold from the shadows of the underworld finally decides she wants one of her own—but fate has a cruelly ironic sense of humor.

Isha has ruled the realm of the dead for eternity, witnessing every tender kiss and whispered vow mortals exchange before they reach her shores. Craving the one thing divinity denies her, she trades her throne for a single year in the mortal world. What she doesn't anticipate is crossing paths with King Auren—the Blood King—a ruler so feared that his own name makes grown warriors flinch.

Auren commands the last living dragons and governs his kingdom with ruthless precision. The rumors surrounding him are monstrous: that he slaughtered his own siblings to claim the crown, that his soul is stained beyond saving. He is exactly the kind of man Isha should despise. And she does. At first.

But gods are patient creatures, and the more Isha watches Auren, the more the careful architecture of his villainy begins to crack, revealing something far more dangerous than a murderous king—a man carrying secrets heavy enough to shake both the mortal realm and the underworld itself.

This dark romantasy delivers a deliciously slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance wrapped in mystery, political intrigue, and dragon fire. When a goddess of death falls for a king who courts it, someone is going to get burned—the only question is who.