For a hundred years, peace had a price paid in blood. A bride for the Hollow King. This century, it is Elara's turn. Marked by fate, she is sent as a sacrifice to a spectral king who rules a realm of twilight and shattered memories. She goes to her doom with a heart that refuses to bow, expecting to find a monster. Instead, she finds a king drowning in his grief. Kasien, the ageless ruler of the Penumbra, did not want a mortal bride. His dying world required a soul of a specific resonance to mend its unraveling fabric. Elara was not that soul. She was a mistake in an ancient pact, a spark of stubborn warmth in a land of eternal frost. And when the gateway seals behind her, she learns there is no way back. In his grim solitude, her defiance becomes a strange fascination. Her unyielding warmth begins to fracture the walls of his ice. Between prisoner and jailer, an impossible bond is forged—a fragile trust that could be her salvation... or her final undoing. She uncovers the tragedy that hollowed out his soul, while he begins to see the world he forgot through her eyes. But his world is dying. Storms of forgotten dreams threaten to devour what little remains. Their only hope is an impossible union, a gamble that could annihilate her completely or give them a chance to create something new from the ashes. In a kingdom forged from endings, can her love be the dawn? Kiss of the Hollow King is a spellbinding, epic tale of loss and the love that blooms in the deepest darkness. Perfect for fans of gothic fantasy, slow-burn romance, and darker, more intricate retellings of Beauty and the Beast .