"If you die, I die. My blood is bound to yours.”On a rain-soaked night, a brutal hit-and-run leaves Kathryn bleeding in the dark. Desperate to survive, she reaches for a glowing, otherworldly artifact unknowingly altering her fate forever.When Elijah, a cold and ruthless Velkari prince, finds her in his forest, an ancient, inescapable blood bond ignites between them. Thrust into a world of immortal secrets, Kathryn becomes a prisoner in an empire run by a man who views her as a dangerous liability.But as external enemies hunt the shard's power and their shared wounds force a terrifying physical intimacy, the line between captor and captive begins to blur. Trapped together in a bond where every heartbeat, pain, and secret desire echoes between them, they must choose: fight a fate that demands total surrender, or burn together in a love born of blood.