Bound to the Shadow King: An Enemies-to-Lovers Dark Fantasy Romance

She was forged to kill him. Now she's bound to his soul. Kaelira is the Empire's deadliest assassin-a weapon honed in the dark rooms of the Spire, stripped of everything except obedience. Dispatched to kill the Northern King, she expects a monster. Instead, she finds a man whose quiet cruelty is matched only by his loneliness, and a kingdom that is nothing like the propaganda she was fed. When a curse forces a soul-bond between them, Kaelira becomes tethered to the enemy she was sent to destroy. The tether bleeds his emotions into her chest-isolation, rage, a desperate hope he doesn't dare name-and forces her own buried wounds to the surface. She is drowning in him, and the only thing more terrifying than his power is the warmth she feels when he looks at her. But Thorne, the commander who shaped her into a weapon, left a door in her mind. Through it, he can see the bond. Taste it. And he will stop at nothing to burn the King's kingdom to ash-even if it means destroying Kaelira from the inside out. Trapped between an Empire that wants her dead and a bond she never chose, Kaelira must decide: Is she still a blade to be wielded, or can she become something that Thorne never prepared for? A person. A choice. >Bound to the Shadow King is the first book in a dark fantasy romance series perfect for readers who love atmospheric worlds, emotionally intense slow burns, and the brutal, beautiful ache of enemies finding home in each other.