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Mische lost everything when she was forcibly Turned into a vampire—her home, her humanity, and most devastating of all, the love of the sun god to whom she had devoted her life. Now, sentenced to death for murdering the vampire prince who turned her, redemption feels impossible. But when Mische is saved by Asar, the bastard prince of the House of Shadow with a past as brutal as his scars, she's forced into a mission worse than execution: a journey to the underworld to resurrect the god of death himself.

For five centuries, a witch's curse has bound the trolls to their city beneath the ruins of Forsaken Mountain. Time enough for their dark and nefarious magic to fade from human memory and into myth. But a prophesy has been spoken of a union with the power to set the trolls free, and when Ccile de Troyes is kidnapped and taken beneath the mountain, she learns there is far more to the myth of the trolls than she could have imagined.

Ilex the Dryad has lived alone in the forest for years, content with only the trees for companions. Their greatest joy in life is feeling the sun on their face, until a woman with red hair rides into their forest astride a horse made of bone.

Es ist gefährlich, einem gebrochenen Herzen Blut anstelle von Liebe zu geben. Als Mische in einen Vampir verwandelt wurde, verlor sie alles – ihr Zuhause, ihre Menschlichkeit und die Liebe des Sonnengottes, dem sie ihr Leben gewidmet hatte. Nun ist sie zum Tode verurteilt, weil sie den getötet hat, der sie gewandelt hat: den Vampirprinzen. Und ihrer Strafe zu entkommen ist ausgeschlossen. Dann wird Mische in letzter Sekunde gerettet – von Asar, dem Bastardprinzen des Hauses der Schatten.

Those left on Earth survived the Rising. They survived the war. Humanity–pushed to the point of extinction–is forced to accept that monsters no longer dwell in the murky shadows of myth and legend. They are frighteningly real.