In a realm where beauty masks brutality, a headstrong sacrificial bride finds herself entangled in a dangerous game of power, desire, and survival—between a brooding demon king and his enigmatic right-hand man. Amethyst, a sharp-witted outcast from the mercantile city of Eryndor, is offered as a "bride" to the Demon King Pendragon to appease his wrath. Her people see her as expendable; she sees the arrangement as a death sentence. But the Demon Realm defies her expectations—its gilded halls and bioluminescent gardens hide a court of shadows, where blood magic fuels power and every smile conceals a knife. Pendragon, half-demon and heir to a cursed throne, is a storm of contradictions. Cold and commanding, he scorns Amethyst’s humanity yet is unnerved by her defiance. His right-hand man, Ethelred—charismatic, half-human, and hiding his own scars—becomes her unlikely ally. When Amethyst discovers a journal detailing the grim fates of past brides, she realizes her survival depends on unraveling Pendragon’s secrets before the court devours her. As tensions escalate, Amethyst walks a razor’s edge: seduced by the realm’s haunting beauty but wary of its traps, drawn to Ethelred’s kindness but ensnared by Pendragon’s magnetism. When an ancient threat resurfaces, the three must confront their tangled loyalties—and the truth that the Demon Realm’s survival may hinge on the very bride meant to die for it. ---