Bitten and Bound

BITTEN AND BOUND
A spicy fated mates vampire romantasy with a ruthless king who won't share

He didn't ask for me. He took me. And now he refuses to let me go.

I was raised to keep my kingdom safe. I never thought that meant handing myself over to the thing we'd been taught to fear.

The border lords call it a peace offering. I call it a sentence. When the vampire court demands a bride to end the war between our lands, my father doesn't ask what I want. He gives me to King Rhystan of the Hollow Crown — a man who hasn't shown his face outside his own gates in a hundred years, and who everyone says has no interest in sharing anything that belongs to him.

I go because I have no choice. I stay because leaving isn't an option either.

Rhystan is nothing like the stories. He's colder. Sharper. And the moment his eyes find mine, something in my chest answers to him in a way I can't explain — and can't take back. He tells me it's the bond. That fate marked us for each other long before either of us had a say in it. I tell him I don't believe in fate.

He doesn't try to convince me. He just makes it very hard to keep saying no.

But the Hollow Crown has its own secrets, and not all of them are his. His second-in-command watches me like he's waiting for me to slip. The court whispers about a sickness spreading through the old bloodlines, one no healer can name. And every night I spend inside those walls, I feel something changing in me — a hunger, a strength, a pull toward the dark that scares me more than any vampire ever could.

I came here to save my people. I'm starting to wonder if I'll even recognize myself by the time I do.

One kingdom wants me broken. One king wants me bound to him forever. And the thing waking up inside me might want something else entirely.

Bitten and Bound is book one in a slow-burn, fated mates vampire romantasy trilogy. Expect a brooding king, a growing love triangle, dark court secrets, and a cliffhanger you won't see coming.