She signed her name to pay her family's debt. She didn't know she was signing away her heart.

Elara has three months. Three months inside the cursed fortress of Ravenhold, married to Prince Kaelan?a man the kingdom calls a demon, a monster, a creature that drains life from anything it touches. The stories say he lost his humanity when the curse took hold. The stories say no one who enters Ravenhold ever truly leaves.

But when Elara crosses the threshold, she doesn't find a monster.

She finds a man who hasn't been touched in ten years. A man who sleeps in a cold fortress alone because he refuses to risk hurting anyone. A man who builds the fire back up without being asked, who notices the hole in her boot, who keeps his gloves on so she doesn't have to be afraid.

The curse is real. The danger is real. And the feelings growing between them?those are real too.

But someone put that curse on Kaelan for a reason. And as the three months count down, Elara begins to suspect the true threat isn't the man she married. It's whoever wants to make sure he never breaks free.

A lush gothic Beauty and the Beast retelling with a slow-burn romance, a cursed prince worth saving, and a heroine who chooses love with her eyes wide open.