Can true love flourish when blood waters its roots?

After ending the imposter that terrorised Alderdeen, Mia Ashmore is imprisoned in a forgotten manor, deep in the Hund Wood. She is shackled by a prophecy that binds her to the alluring vampyre Mortias Blackwood-who claims she alone must assassinate the human king to save the crumbling land of Zeroth.

When Idris watched the woman he loved disappear in a flurry of black feathers, he swore to do whatever it took to rescue her from his bloodthirsty father-even if it meant leading a treacherous rebellion. But in the heart of the cursed woods, beside sharp-tongued, roguish Wyn Neverclove, something unexpected blooms in the gnarled roots. An unlikely bond.

Torn between Oryah's cruel plans for Mia and Idris' desperate need to get her to safety, both face the question: are they simply the pawns of this prophecy-or its breakers?