Their Hunted Bride: A Dark Vampire Why-Choose Romance: 2

The sun is broken. The empire wants its bride back.Mara Vale escaped the Blood Vault with three vampire princes and a bond the empire cannot control. Now the Halo flickers, true night has returned, and every hunter in Vesper knows her face.Lucien wants a throne. Riven wants vengeance. Soren wants the truth hidden in Mara's blood.Mara wants the one thing none of them can promise: a future she chooses for herself.Their only hope may be the mother Mara believed dead. But Elara Vale has spent twenty-five years preparing a cure for the bond. She calls the princes captors. She calls separation freedom. And she is willing to imprison her daughter to prove it.As desire draws the four closer and the empire closes in, Mara must decide whether a life chosen for her is only another kind of cage.Her enemies want her surrendered. Her mother wants her saved. The monsters she loves want only her choice.Their Hunted Bride is Book Two of the Bloodbound Princes trilogy and must be read after Their Poisoned Bride. This dark, high-heat vampire why-choose romance contains three possessive antiheroes, forced proximity, blood magic, open-door spice, group intimacy, and a cliffhanger. All central romantic characters are adults.