Julian Vane wakes on a stone altar with his heart silent, his blood cold, and his soul bound to the woman who dragged him back from death-Lady Isolde Blackwood, the immortal lich who rules the catacombs beneath Velvetwave. She is cruel, brilliant, and impossibly beautiful... and Julian is sworn to her by magic he cannot break. What begins as servitude slowly twists into something far more dangerous. Isolde teaches him to command the shadows, to walk between life and death, to embrace the power humming in his reanimated bones-but beneath her icy composure lies a hunger she refuses to name. Every command is a test. Every lesson draws them closer. Every lingering touch blurs the line between mistress and something far more intimate. As Julian grows stronger, so does the bond between them-dark, addictive, and forbidden even in the underworld. But with witch hunters stalking the streets above and the ghost of Julian's lost humanity haunting every step, the fragile connection between lich and servant threatens to shatter them both. Because Julian is beginning to want his mistress. And Isolde, for all her cold perfection, may want him too... enough to finally risk the one thing an immortal fears most: feeling. In the depths of Velvetwave, death was only Julian's beginning. Love may be his undoing.
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