The Vespertine Treaty: Your next Gothic Fantasy obsession (The Velvet Malediction Duet)

A DARK ROMANTASY OF ARRANGED MARRIAGE, FORBIDDEN CONNECTIONS, AND A DEADLY TREATY. She was sent to stabilise a monster. She didn't expect to ignite a forbidden fire. Ophelia Ashworth has only ever known decay. As the last heir of the once-illustrious Life-Touch lineage, her sole inheritance is a family name choked by shame and a magical core cursed by a spreading blight. In the brutal, elegant world of Aeternia, where Life and Death magic must maintain an unstable cosmic Balance, Ophelia is a pawn, a beautiful sacrifice. Her fate is sealed by the ancient Vespertine Treaty: a political decree forcing her to marry the Prince of Death himself. Cain Alistair, master of the Void, and Prince of Death, is a creature of terrifying power and cold obsidian armour. He rules his hollow estate with surgical precision, viewing Ophelia not as a bride, but as a fragile asset needed to anchor his dark power and stop himself from descending into madness. Dragged into the chilling opulence of Cain's estate, Ophelia faces an impossible choice: surrender to her captor's dark majesty, or defy the cosmic destiny laid before her.