She ran from the fire of men, only to be captured by a god of shadow and frost. Branded a witch and cast out by her village, Seraphine's only hope is to disappear into the ancient forests. But the woods belong to the Fae, and she is trespassing. Her captor is Valthorne, the Fae prince, a creature of breathtaking beauty and savage cruelty, his eyes promising both ruin and rapture. His price for her life is simple: servitude or death . But Seraphine, whose very blood sings a magic older than his entire kingdom, will not be so easily broken. Trapped in his moonlit grove, she becomes the object of his dark , possessive desire. He offers her a world of sensual discovery, a forbidden path paved with pleasure and pain that awakens a primal power she never knew she possessed. Every command is a test, every touch a tantalizing torment that pushes her to the edge of surrender. Valthorne is determined to claim her, to break her, to make her his . But in this dangerous game of submission and dominance, the line between captor and captive begins to blur. For the Fae Prince has a secret , a wou**nded heart that mirrors the loneliness in her own. As his obsession deepens, Seraphine must make a choice: succumb to the hypnotic pull of his touch and become his creature, or unleash the wild , untamed magic stirring in her soul—a force that could destroy them both. In this clash of wills and worlds, who will be the one to finally kneel?