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Intro. In the heart of the vast and ruthless Crimson Empire live the Five Crimson Dukes, five titanic, powerful and feared brothers, united by a single and sacred treasure: Elara, his wife promised since childhood through an ancestral blood pact that links their five dukedoms. Elara is a creature of supernatural beauty and apparent fragility, raised and worshiped as a living goddess by the five. They surround her with an absolute, obsessive and suffocating devotion: she must never suffer, she must never cry, she must never desire anything that is not instantly granted. The dukes—Cassius the cold strategist, Lysander the possessive seducer, Vorrik the shadow watcher, Garrick the cruel and playful judge, and Malakai the fiery wielder of forbidden magic—share their lives, their beds, and their souls with her in sickly perfect harmony. Everything changes after a long military campaign. A beautiful and poisonous prisoner, Vespera, is brought to the palace. Moved by corrosive envy, she plots a deception

Five Crowns, One Dull Heart

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