When Yasmin’s village is slaughtered, she is dragged beyond the Veil by Mordryn, a stag-skulled Deep Fae necromancer who feeds on fear and claims her as his pactbound.

Collared in his frozen manor, Yasmin becomes his captive in a world of blood rites, deadly court intrigue, and cruel appetites. To Mordryn, she is his creature, his temptation, his to command, taste, and keep until he tires of her. Yasmin plans to survive the winter and flee at the thaw.

But monsters like Mordryn do not just hunger. They crave.

And the more Yasmin feels the weight of his attention—the more she learns the brutal, scarred male beneath the mask wants far more than her fear—the more terror gives way to forbidden longing. Because when Mordryn decides she is his, obsession becomes devotion…and anyone who tries to take her will bleed for it.



Being hunted by a monster is terrifying. 

Being loved by one is worse.

"Vessel of Ashes"

by Gemma Pettinato