The Husband from the Midnight Market
Maeve Hawthorne has nothing left.Her family was destroyed by the Solar Empire, her home was taken, and her life has been reduced to survival in the freezing border marshes. When imperial hunters pursue her into the supernatural Midnight Market during the Century Eclipse, Maeve possesses only one thing of value: her mother's final mourning coin.The Market accepts only absolute poverty as payment.Desperate to escape, Maeve spends that last coin-and unknowingly buys a man.Inside a silver cage stands Sebastian, a mysterious young prisoner whose body is slowly being consumed by an ancient petrifying curse. The Market's law is absolute: once purchased, Sebastian belongs to Maeve. An invisible Soul-Boon binds their lives together, forcing their bodies and destinies into a terrifying celestial alignment.Maeve believes she has rescued a condemned stranger.She soon discovers she has purchased the runaway prince of the Solar Empire.Sebastian is the heir to an empire built upon blood, political marriages, and ancient supernatural power. His father, Emperor Victor Holloway, intends to force him into marriage with Princess Helena Whitmore, whose divine bloodline is supposedly capable of neutralizing the curse destroying Sebastian's body.But Victor has another problem.The Soul-Boon cannot be broken by imperial law. And Maeve-an impoverished survivor carrying the blood of a supposedly extinct border house-is the vessel the ancient ritual requires.What Maeve thought was an act of desperation was actually part of an elaborate imperial plan.Victor deliberately arranged the circumstances that led Maeve into the Midnight Market. He knew her bloodline. He knew she would possess exactly one coin. He knew the Market would transform that coin into a binding contract. Maeve was never a random scavenger who happened to rescue a dying prince. She was the leash designed to drag him back to the altar.Now the contract has become the one weapon the Emperor cannot control.As Sebastian's curse worsens and the royal wedding approaches, Maeve must decide whether to abandon the prince and claim the fortune she has always dreamed of-or refuse the empire and risk death beside the man she was never supposed to love.Sebastian, meanwhile, must confront the truth about his father, his inheritance, and the empire he was born to rule.Their bond began as a transaction.It may become rebellion.The Husband from the Midnight Market is a dark fantasy romance filled with forbidden love, supernatural contracts, royal conspiracies, deadly curses, political betrayal, and a heroine who discovers that the poorest thing in the empire may possess the one power its Emperor cannot buy.
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