On the night of her eighteenth birthday, she is dressed in white… not as a bride, but as a sacrifice.Cursed since birth, her death is the only thing keeping the kingdom safe—or so they believe.But when the execution begins, something impossible happens.The sky burns. The ground trembles.And the most feared king—the enemy of her kingdom—appears… not to destroy her, but to claim her.“You were never meant to die,” he whispers. “You were meant to be mine.”As secrets unravel and forbidden power awakens within her, she realizes one terrifying truth—The curse was never hers…It was the world that feared what she could become.