Our Viscous Oaths N.E. Davenport

“You, love, are veritably magnificent when you're bloodthirsty. I like it.” 

Princess Kadeesha of the Aether Dominion has spent her life defying the role chosen for her. A warrior and commander of elite serpent riders, she wants nothing to do with court politics—or the High King she’s been promised to since infancy.

On the eve of her unwanted marriage, she takes one last night of freedom… in the arms of a dangerous stranger.

By morning, he becomes her ruin.

Malachi, the ruthless new king of the fallen Apollyon Court, crashes her wedding, slaughters her court, and takes Kadeesha captive—revealing the truth: their night together was no accident. It was a trap for the High King, the man Malachi has sworn to destroy.

But Kadeesha is no helpless prisoner. Now queen of her people, she strikes a deadly bargain with the man who betrayed her: she will help lure the High King to his death… and in return, Malachi will spare her Dominion.

Bound by vengeance, forced into a dangerous alliance, and haunted by a night neither can forget, Kadeesha and Malachi must play lovers to provoke a king’s jealousy.

The problem? The desire between them isn’t an act.

And in a world where fae bonds cannot be broken, falling for her enemy could cost Kadeesha everything.