The price of peace is my freedom.Nine years ago Elsin, The Witch Queen of Lanmarial gave my mother a terrible choice. She threatened our land, Morain, with a terrible curse that would destroy us all. The only way to avoid this me, her daughter, to be delivered to Elsin at the Blood Caverns, on my twentieth birthday. And Elsin makes no secret of what she plans for me.My mother refuses, insisting I grow up knowing nothing of this demand. She teaches me instead that Elsin the Witch Queen is pure evil, a terror to be feared. I grew up with Elsin the Witch Queen haunting my nightmares. A few months after I turn twenty a terrible Sickness comes to my beloved Brightstar Castle. When it strikes my brother, the young King, I learn the truth about what Elsin wants. To save my brother and the realm I love, I must deliver myself into the clutches of a woman I consider a monster. A woman who's twisted story I've obsessed over my entire life.But is the story I've been told about Elsin the Witch Queen the truth?A fairytale-inspired dark sapphic romance with enemies to lovers, lots of spice and dark scenesCONTENT This is a dark fantasy story it contains dark themes and disturbing elements.