Once Written in Gilded Blood (Deluxe Edition) (Cruel Fates Duet, 2)

She married her enemy to end a war. She never expected to fall in love with him — or to discover that peace is far more dangerous than the battle that preceded it.

In this stunning conclusion to the Cruel Fates Duet, New York Times bestselling author K.M. Moronova delivers a dark, intoxicating romantasy that proves some fates cannot be outrun, no matter how desperately you love the person standing beside you.

Alira made her choice. She took the Blood Knight as her husband, sealing a fragile truce between demigods and demons with vows she once would have sooner died than speak. Now she lives in Devicit at Kal's side, determined to build something real from the ruins of everything they used to be to each other. But paradise has a heartbeat, and this one is wrong.

The veil surrounding the demon kingdom pulses with secrets she can't name. The gods are growing restless, watching with hunger in their ancient eyes. And beyond the shimmering boundary of their borrowed peace, old enemies are sharpening their blades — enemies who never accepted that a war could end with a wedding.

Alira and Kal survived becoming each other's greatest threat. Now they must survive becoming each other's greatest vulnerability, because in a world of demons, devils, and divine wrath,