A storm has been building for fifty years. Now it's ready to break.
Cate Rose rules Hell as its Devil, raising her forbidden child - half angel, half demon - far from the reach of Uriel, the archangel who has never stopped searching. His obsession has curdled into something far more dangerous than grief, and he will go to any length to reclaim the daughter he believes was stolen from him.
Above the immortal world, a different darkness is stirring.
Tilly is just a circus performer trying to live an ordinary life - until she is dragged into the orbit of a travelling show devoted to the ancient demon Lilith. What follows is a collision course with Blake Rose, the Black Prince of Hell. A creature carved from ice, cruelty, and impossible beauty. His gaze is intoxicating. His power is lethal. And Tilly finds herself caught between fear, desire, and the dangerous pull of a prince who claims to feel nothing at all.
She wants to melt his cold heart.
He wants to keep her as his own.
But love does not come easily to a being forged in darkness - and Tilly must decide whether Blake's touch will destroy her, or awaken something just as dark within herself.
A Slave to the Darkness is the second book in the Black Rose dark fantasy romance series - a gothic, slow-burn descent into the infernal courts of Hell, where power is seduction, desire is survival, and the most dangerous thing a demon can do is feel. Packed with forbidden romance, occult mythology, morally complex characters, and cinematic supernatural tension, this is dark fantasy for readers who root for the villain and believe transformation is never gentle.