Dead or alive-he owns me.
A lot of factors make waking up naked in a puddle of blood worse.
Such as not remembering if it's your blood or someone else's.
Lyra and Marcella both wake up this way-unable to remember who they are and where they are.
Surrounded by dragon artwork in a gilded castle, they find themselves competing with twenty-eight other women for the chance at marrying Cyrus-the Dragon Land's king. A man whose white eyes are haunting enough to chill the blood in their veins. Despite his otherworldly beauty, there's a way his figure glides within the shadows. Hinting of something sinister...and an eons-old secret.
The group of women begin to dwindle as they enter deadly trials set to test their compatibility with Cyrus. While it should be a comfort to know they're closing in on a potential engagement, Lyra and Marcella notice something odd. Women are beginning to disappear outside of the trials. And no one knows why. As time goes on, their out-of-sync reflections and shifting shadows might not just be a hallucination.
They're being hunted.
Rediscovering their pasts may be the key to not only finding love, but surviving. Or it could be the final nail in their coffins. Because secrets never die-they're just buried in a grave.
Magnolia made a deal with the devil, and she's been paying for it ever since. For seven years, her only contact with the living has been dragging bodies back to the Dead King. With each human he forces her to hunt, another piece of her humanity slips away, leaving Magnolia more dead than the ghosts inside his castle. But she doesn't have a choice. The Dead King owns her-body, mind, and soul.
Her next task: infiltrate Viven, the kingdom of the living, during a deadly tournament designed to recruit new dragon riders. To complete her hunt, Magnolia must live alongside the most lethal beings in Viven. But monsters are nothing new to her-she's spent years chained to the deadliest one, becoming nothing more than a weapon with a pulse.
As the tournament unfolds, Magnolia realizes she'll be forced to betray the one man who looks at her like she's still human, and she starts wanting something she can never have.
Can Magnolia escape the deal she made seven years ago, or will this hunt take what's left of her humanity-and her life?
