Marriage was supposed to be a prison.
This one is a promise—chosen again and again, for eternity. 

Lucia Delacroix was born in a cage lined with pearls and expectations.
A porcelain debutante raised to smile, submit, and marry the man her parents chose—all for legacy, not love.

But on the night of her engagement, everything changes.

At a masquerade ball glittering with power and secrets, Lucia meets a stranger cloaked in black—and feels something she’s never known before: a spark.

Azrael is no mortal man.

He is a vampire forged in myth and blood, bound to an ancient code. He does not offer her love.

He offers her freedom. A choice.

Lucia takes it.

She trades lace for fire. Her name for power. A contract written in cruelty for a promise sealed in fangs.

Now she walks the night at Azrael’s side—not as his bride, but as his equal. His shadow. His match.

Together they are beautiful and terrifying, bound not by duty but by desire.

But freedom comes with a price—and the Order Azrael serves does not forgive betrayal.