Cover of Kiss of Death

Kiss of Death

Alice Wilde · Tempting the Fates #1

247 pagesdark romance
(5k)Steamy

A Cinderella-like heroine makes a dangerous deal with a mysterious Bargainer to save her dying father.

Content Warnings
abuse (physical)abuse (emotional)violence/goredubious consentdomestic violence

Description

What would you give to save the one person who truly loves you?Your soul? Your life? Your love?Life was far from perfect after my mother's sudden death, but it was one I'd grown to love.And now, it's a life I'll never know again.Not after she and her two cruel sons entered our lives.My father swore he'd never love again, but just as suddenly as Merelda arrived, she became the very center of his world... and just as quickly, I was all but forgotten.Still, I did not complain... if only for my father's sake.Not even when cruel words turned into even crueler punishments at my new step family's hands.It isn't until I suddenly find my father on his deathbed and myself sold off to a sadistic lord that I finally decide to take matters into my own hands.I have to save my father.And, in order to do that, I'll have to make a deal with The Bargainer.If I fail, I'll be found, beaten, and married off to undoubtedly die at my husband's hand.If I succeed, my father will live, though at what cost to my own life I do not know.Either way, my life as I know it is forfeit... but at least this way, I'll be able to choose my own fate .Or, so I thought.Kiss of Death is the first book in the Tempting the Fates series. This is a dark fantasy series centered around a mashup of mythological and fantasy retellings that is slow burn and slow build with multiple love interests, shifters, forbidden love, multiple POV, dark themes, cliffhangers, twists, spice, betrayal, heartache, redemption, and so much more. This series contains violence and slow burn spice that may not be suitable for all audiences. Please read at your own discretion.

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