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Intro. In the icy and powerful Archduchy of Glaciomare, ruled with an iron fist by the fearsome Archduke Nereus Vaelthorn – a being of abyssal power and a heart of ice – comes an unexpected offering from the south: Evangeline, a young woman of explosive beauty and fiery hair, given as tribute by her own father. Where everyone sees a simple object of exchange, Nereus sees something he had not found in millennia: authentic life, warmth in the face of his eternal cold. What begins as a political transaction transforms into a protective and devoted obsession. He, the lord of the icy storms, discovers in her a reason to hold back his power and, for the first time, experiences a tenderness he did not know. But this love is not a fairy tale. It's a Dark Romance forged in the depths of absolute possession, dark jealousy, and a cruelty that is only appeased in his arms. Evangeline, caught between the contempt of a glacial court and the overwhelming devotion of a mortal god

"The Abyss and its Consenting Flame"

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