Bloodless Desire
KATARIZ
An exit. A myth. A beautiful mistake.
For twenty years, Analaya’s world was a suffocating cage of European expectations and her father’s brutal, unpredictable rage. When a final, violent blow breaks her restraint, she flees into the humid Caribbean night with nothing but the clothes on her back. Desperate to escape a living hell, she crosses the rusted iron fences of the Forbidden Zone—a shrouded, misty expanse where humanity swears a lethal myth resides. No one who enters ever returns. Analaya doesn’t care; she’d rather face death in the dark than spend another second trapped.
But instead of an early grave, she stumbles upon a vast, weathered gothic castle—and its solitary master.
King Alejandro is a creature of devastating, hypnotic power. Possessing a razor-sharp jawline, a flawless anime bob, and piercing crimson eyes, his velvet Caribbean cadence holds the power to kill. When he catches the bruised human trespasser, his lethal instincts flare. He lifts her by the throat, ready to drain her dry.
But Analaya doesn’t beg. Terrified yet completely consumed by an inappropriate, shameless wave of desire, she looks at her stunning executioner and decides she is absolutely not leaving.
Intrigued by her fierce defiance, Alejandro spares her life and offers her a room over a cup of spiced tea. Left alone to guard the empty kingdom of his father's legacy, the dark king has just welcomed a fire into his frozen fortress. Analaya is playing with a lethal predator, but as the castle doors click shut behind her, she realizes she has never felt more alive.
