Once Upon a Demon's Heart: Cruel Fates Duet, Book 1

She has died at his hands twenty times. Now she has to marry him.

Alira, a devoted demigod knight and daughter of Venus herself, is trapped in a brutal time loop with no end in sight—each cycle concluding the same way: with the demon kingdom's legendary Blood Knight standing over her corpse. Twenty deaths. Twenty resets. Twenty chances to find a way out that never comes. Haunted by the massacre she once led against the innocent village of Thornhall, Alira carries guilt as heavy as her sword, and the loop feels like punishment she almost believes she deserves.

Almost.

On the twenty-first reset, she makes a desperate, irreversible choice—one that could shatter the centuries-long war between demigods and demons, or destroy her completely. Peace, she decides, must begin somewhere. What she doesn't anticipate is discovering exactly who she'll be standing beside at the altar: the same warrior who has ended her life with ruthless precision more times than she can count.

In this lush, darkly romantic fantasy where horror bleeds into longing and curses carry secrets older than kingdoms, two enemies bound by fate must reckon with everything they've done to each other—and everything they're beginning to feel. The Blood Knight is nothing like the monster she remembers, and that terrifies her more than any blade.

Some curses aren't meant to be broken. Some are meant to be survived together—if they can stop wanting to destroy each other first.