Bound to the Frost Tyrant

The branding iron is inches from Seraphina Valentine’s skin when her fiancé publicly condemns her for treason—and the fortress’s most feared warlord steps through the blood-soaked hall. With execution waiting below, she invokes an ancient death-duel clause and offers Archduke Calian Draven the one thing he cannot steal: her bloodline and its buried secret. Calian accepts by crushing the execution order and forcing her family ring onto her finger, declaring her his lawful prisoner—and contract bride. By day, he chains her beneath icy interrogations; by night, his savage curse drives him to her side, soothed only by her blood and touch. Trapped in his frozen stronghold while her ex-fiancé raises an army against them, Seraphina must decide whether to destroy the ruthless enemy holding her captive—or become the one person capable of unleashing the beast inside him. When Calian pins her against the battlements with his fangs at her throat and Marcus watching, will Seraphina swear herself to the monster… or let both men drag her into the abyss?