"Your blood woke me. Your ancestor's blood cursed me. The universe has a sense of humor, it seems."
When desperate healer Iris Moonweaver breaks into the cursed Thorn Court seeking flowers to save her dying sister, she never expects to wake its sleeping king with a drop of her blood. Theron has been imprisoned in thorns for three centuries, paying for crimes of legendary cruelty. Now he offers a bargain: serve him for one lunar cycle, and he'll heal her sister completely.
But as silver veins spread beneath Iris's skin and their blood bond deepens into something neither expected, she discovers the truth behind the curse-and the price of breaking it. With the Light Court hunting them and seven fae courts preparing for war, Iris must choose: her humanity or her heart, her mortal life or an eternal love that could either save or doom them all.