The Hunted Heir (The Veiled Kingdom, #2)

by Holly Renee

Birthed to be enemies. But in another world, another time, we could have been different. We could have been more. We could have been Dacre and Verena. Instead of the rebel and the heir.

But as she took another step back, thick tendrils of black smoke coiled around her legs like a serpent, encompassing her in its embrace.

the moment she came into my life, she became it.

He was here, and I felt at peace and on fire all at once.

He looked like he was ready to set the world on fire, and all I could think about in that moment was how badly I wanted to burn.

“I am yours, Verena,” he growled against my mouth. “In this kingdom and the next, wherever the tides take you, I am yours.”

She was sin, every part of her damning me.

“The gods made you for me. Carved you from the stars themselves until I could no longer bear to gaze up at the sky without longing for you.”