Description
Cassie Monroe never intended to write a vampire novel. It started as a joke-just something to vent her late-night boredom and frustration with her dead end job. But somehow, the world she created-Noctis Vale-took over. Gothic castles. Eternal fog. And at the center, an imprisoned vampire prince named Kael, banished for a betrayal nobody dared to name. One night, while rewriting a critical scene, her screen glitches. The words blur. The keyboard sparks. Then-darkness. Cassie wakes in a stone chamber, cold air clinging to her skin. It's not a dream. It's Noctis Vale. And she's standing in front of the Iron Gate-the one she designed to seal Kael away. He's there. Just like she wrote him: regal, terrifying, too beautiful to be real. Chains carved with runes hold him down. But he looks at her like he's been expecting her forever. "You finally came," he says, voice like thunder in a cave. "You're the key." Cassie is the author, but now she's trapped in her own story. Worse, the plot is rewriting itself-driven not by her keyboard, but by fate. Every choice she makes carries weight. Every secret Kael keeps pulls her deeper. He's not the villain she thought. And maybe she's not just the writer... maybe she's part of the curse.
chapter one
