𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡. "I was supposed to put a blade through his heart. Somehow, he became the reason mine kept beating." 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙚'𝙙 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧. She never imagined she'd fall in love with him. Elara Vale has spent her entire life haunted by one memory: 𝙃𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧'𝙨 𝙢𝙪𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧. She was only a child when she watched the person she loved most disappear. Now, years later, she finally has a chance to make the monster responsible pay. There's only one problem. To kill a monster, Elara must first become one. Her mission takes her into Azure-a world where monsters walk among humans, where magic has a price, and where nothing is ever as it seems. She has three rules: 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙞𝙢. 𝙀𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩. 𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙝𝙞𝙢. Then she meets Zack Knight. Beautiful enough to be dangerous. Dangerous enough to be deadly. And far too good at getting under her skin. He doesn't know why she's there. He doesn't know what she's hiding. And Elara intends to keep it that way. But every conversation makes her question the mission. Every secret makes her question the truth. And every moment beside him makes her question the one thing she thought she knew for certain: 𝙕𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙆𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧. Because the closer she gets to him, the harder it becomes to remember that he's supposed to die by her hand. *"The cruelest part wasn't falling for the monster.* *It was realizing I no longer wanted to kill him."* But monsters have secrets. And Zack's secrets are darker than Elara could have imagined. Because perhaps the greatest danger isn't falling in love with