The Lion & the Deathless Dark: Book 1 of the Bloodborn Duet

By Carissa Broadbent

Book Overview

#1 New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Carissa Broadbent returns with a brand new novel in the Crowns of Nyaxia series, The Lion & the Deathless Dark - the first book in the Bloodborn Duet. Now in trade paperback featuring a beautiful map

Some blood tastes like vengeance. Some blood tastes like grief. Some blood tastes like nothing at all.

Under an eternal night, the world has been ravaged by ten years of war between humans and vampires. Kyrene scrapes by as a bounty hunter, bearing a blessed sword from the goddess of justice. But in the wake of a devastating loss, Kyrene commits a crime that makes her a target for mortals and gods alike - and she is still desperate for vengeance.

Her only chance at survival - and revenge - is making a deal with her enemy, the silver-tongue vampire prince, Septimus, who offers her one final job: to slay the gods themselves.

Together, Kyrene and Septimus must hunt the ultimate marks, all while navigating a web of prophecies and curses. Septimus is calculating and mysterious, masking secrets bloodthirsty enough to consume them both. Yet, most dangerous of all, Kyrene finds an unexpected kinship in him.

But their growing attraction is deadly in a world where the only currency is blood. And Kyrene will stop at nothing to fulfill her ultimate goal: to kill the goddess of vampires, even if it means sacrificing love for revenge.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250367867
• ISBN13: 9781250367860
• Release Date: February 2027
• Publisher: Bramble
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Emotional Rollercoaster filled with action

Wow. What an emotional rollercoaster. Carissa Broadbent has brought me back into the world of gods and vampires. Can be read as a standalone duology but there are so many previous characters that make an appearance that a knowledge makes it more fluid. This masterpiece is broken up into 5 parts and it was needed. Part 1: Justice The build and development of Kyrene’s character and the why she is who she is, is part 1. I was hooked. Reading who she is and her story development was top notch. I gasped and forgot how to breathe in this part as it RIPPED OUT MY HEART. Part 2: Machinery First off, I didn’t like Septimus as a character in the first 4 books. I thought he was a pompous jerk who showed up and brought trouble with him. Part 2 made almost every single previous appearance make sense. There is a back story and an endgame to this and Septimus was the center of it. I was giddily, smiling, ooh-ing and aww-ing through this part Part 3: Pleasure Now I didn’t really know what to expect here. Just kidding I saw pleasure and went ok this is where I fall in love with Septimus. But as I read I realized I had already fallen in love with him and Kyrene. This section just ironed out the wrinkles. And then the twist, the background story and the betrayals of multiple characters RIPPED MY HEART AGAIN Part 4: Blood Gurl what! That’s all you get. This section was …. Oh my god. Part 5: Vengeance I had mistaken who’s vengeance this part was for. Read this section with a bookmark blocking me from skipping around. Action packed, emotional damage and jaw dropping ending. 5⭐️ for Carissa Broadbent. I can’t believe that there is only one book left. 😭🫣