"His life gave her breath. Her hunger will give him hell." Iris has been a statue in the royal crypt for three centuries, a forgotten princess turned to stone by an ancient curse. When Valerius, a rogue vampire prince seeking refuge, bleeds upon her altar during a desperate battle, the impossible happens. The iron in his blood shatters her stone skin. Iris awakens—not as the human she was, but as something new, bound to Valerius by a primal, unbreakable link. She can feel his thoughts, his pain, and his insatiable thirst. Now, as they flee from a kingdom that wants them both dead, they must navigate a bond that is part soulmate, part predator. "Blood Bound" is a dark, atmospheric epic about a love that literally bleeds.
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