The Venom in her Veins

She is the curse the fractured realms have always feared—and she's only just beginning.

Verena carries The Viper's mark like a death sentence written in her own blood. The ancient, corrupting brand promises one thing: she will destroy the very realms she has spent her entire life dreaming of uniting. As the darkness inside her grows harder to resist and impossibly seductive, Verena faces a truth more terrifying than any monster—she might already be becoming one.

Ronan D'Vyre, the haunted heir to the dragon kingdom of Ryuu, has no patience for cursed girls with dangerous eyes. His empire is crumbling. A devastating plague is swallowing his people whole. He will sacrifice anything—anyone—to pull his kingdom back from the edge of ruin. What he doesn't plan for is Verena.

Their collision is violent, inevitable, and catastrophic in the best possible way.

Set against a breathtaking dark fantasy world of warring kingdoms and ancient magic, *The Venom in Her Veins* is a ferociously atmospheric romantasy that pulls no punches. J.E. Caroline crafts an enemies-to-lovers romance drenched in horror, heat, and heartbreak, where the line between salvation and destruction runs razor-thin. Two people who should be each other's ruin must decide whether the bond forming between them is the world's only hope—or its final undoing.

Some poisons don't kill you. They change you into something the world was never ready for.