The night Onyx’s mother died, the Blood Crown was stolen — and with it, the truth. Now, ten years later, Onyx walks into the Obsidian Court draped in illusion and ice, her real name buried beneath ash and silence. She is not here to plead. She is here to *unmake* Kaelen, the vampire monarch who wears her family’s crown like a trophy. But fate laughs at revenge. The moment their hands brush during a diplomatic ritual, fire erupts beneath her skin — a bond, ancient and undeniable, flares between t