In a forgotten valley where the empire's maps refuse to go, Rustem Pasha hunts the thing that has been swallowing soldiers whole for three months. What he finds instead is Hilal, a woman frozen at twenty-two for over two centuries, cursed between life and death, achingly beautiful, and utterly alone.
She was never the monster the reports described. She is something far more dangerous: the first thing in two hundred years that Rustem cannot bring himself to destroy.
As nights turn into weeks, an ancient curse begins to crack - and with it, two centuries of buried longing, grief, and desire come flooding back into a body that remembers everything and has felt nothing for far too long. But a rival pasha has heard the rumors too, and he isn't interested in love stories. He wants to own what Rustem has only just learned to cherish.
A scorching, atmospheric romance set against the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, The Pasha's Cursed Hunt is a story about what happens when the dead remember how to want, and the living remember how to feel.
For readers who love: forbidden romance, slow-burn tension, gothic atmosphere, supernatural love stories, and heroes who choose love over duty.