Marked By The Nyx Breaker: A Spicy Ticking Clock Fated Mates Romance

By VA Browning

He has seven days to live. She is the only cure. There's just one problem - the cure requires intimacy, and touching him might kill her.

Cassius Noctis is the Nyx Breaker - a five-hundred-year-old vampire warrior built from shadow and war. Six months ago, a dying witch cursed him so that any physical contact causes mutual agony. He has been counting down his death in a stone safe house, alone, with nothing but black veins creeping toward his heart and a sad, wilting fern.

Rowan Ashford is a professional curse-breaker. She's broken hexes on three continents, survived losing her fianc to magic she couldn't control, and treats supernatural emergencies with the detached precision of a surgeon. She does not do feelings. She does do solutions.

When she removes her glove to touch his curse marks and nothing hurts - not for either of them - the Council has a new word for her: Shadow Twin. His fated mate. The only person in the world whose touch won't kill him.

The only cure for a death curse is also the one thing neither of them knows how to do: trust someone completely.

He has seven days. She has a plan. The curse has other ideas.

"You cannot touch me." "I'm a curse-breaker, Cassius. Touching cursed things is literally in the job description. Do you think I break hexes via email?"

Fated Mates / Shadow Twin Bond Ticking Clock - 7 Days to Live Forced Proximity - Council Safe House Lock Grumpy x Sunshine - Touch-Starved Warrior - Ritual Claiming - Intimacy Required to Break the Curse Protective Hero - "I Am Dying but I Will Still Destroy Anyone Who Threatens Her" Size Difference - He catalogues everything in the room for threats; she is one of the things Vampire Romance - Shadow Magic, Conversion, Fated Bond

A short, steamy paranormal romance. Can be finished in one sitting. HEA guaranteed. No cliffhanger.

Book 3 in the Shadow Bound Mates series. Each book follows a different couple and can be read as a standalone. Best enjoyed after Book 1 (Claimed) and Book 2 (Stolen).

For Fans Of: A Court of Mist and Fury meets The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1971109061
• ISBN13: 9781971109060
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Nickanny Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"