The Bloodfire Curse: A Dark Fantasy Romance
The assassin came to kill the dragon; the magic made them mates—now the whole world wants her dead and he’ll burn it all down first.
Vea, a gutter-born assassin, climbs the Crown Citadel to kill General Valdus, the dragon-shifter High Commander who enslaved her city—only to accidentally trigger an ancient blood-bond (the ‘carrix’) that magically tethers their lives together, so that if either dies the other is destroyed.
To hide her from the King’s sorcerers, Valdus smuggles her north to a brutal war college disguised as a cadet, where her latent High Fae royal blood and volatile anti-magic begin to surface.
As the Fae armies breach the border demanding Vea ‘the Bloodfire Queen’ by name, the enemies-turned-mates must decide whether to fight the empire that made them or become something far more dangerous together.
Tropes: enemies to lovers, fated mates / involuntary soul-bond, captor and captive, forced proximity, assassin heroine, dragon shifter hero, morally grey / villain-coded hero, size difference, touch-her-and-die protective possessiveness, hidden royalty / secret heir, chosen one / dark prophecy, only-one-bed / skin-to-skin warming, grumpy hero and small fierce heroine
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Story promises: HFN · multiple POV · past tense (what this means)
Content notes: explicit sexual content; graphic fantasy violence; gore and on-page killing; captivity and coercion; torture; war and mass death; trauma and abuse references; coercive magical power dynamics (full index)
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