She was raised to believe her gift made her precious. No one told her precious things can still be owned.
Seraphine Vaelora has spent her life as the feared and protected daughter of one of Veyrath's most powerful Houses. Her body can absorb poisons that would kill anyone else. Her touch has become legend. Her family calls her invaluable.
Then she saves a dying prince and the poison gives her a memory that should be impossible.
A dead queen speaks.
A buried woman appears beneath the earth.
And one warning changes everything:
The Poison Daughter must never reach thirty.
Seraphine is twenty-eight.
What begins as a forbidden search through royal archives soon exposes a secret her family has protected for generations. Poison Daughters have died young for centuries. One woman was erased from the family record entirely. An ancient ritual known as the Concord has been rewritten to disguise sacrifice as duty. And the powerful bloodlines governing the kingdom may depend on Seraphine never discovering what her magic was truly meant to do.
Then Kael Rowan returns.
Rebel. Traitor. Enemy of the Crown.
And the man Seraphine was taught to blame for her brother's death.
But Kael carries a message written by the brother she lost, proof that her family has been lying to her, and an offer no one in her life has ever truly given her before.
A choice.
Leaving Vespera means abandoning everything Seraphine has been trained to protect. Staying may mean surrendering her body to a ritual designed long before she was born. And as her mysterious Bloom awakens, she begins to understand the terrifying truth behind her gift.
She was never created simply to survive poison.
She may have been born to break the system that made women like her useful.
But freedom has a price.
Her mother knows more than she admits. The queen believed dead may still be alive. Seven ruling Houses are guarding seven different versions of history. And the closer Seraphine grows to Kael, the more dangerous it becomes to separate desire from trust, rebellion from revenge, and love from another form of possession.
Because Seraphine has spent her entire life being told what she owes her bloodline.
Now she must decide what belongs to her.
Her magic.
Her body.
Her heart.
And her future.
The Poison Daughter is a lush, emotionally charged dark fantasy romance filled with forbidden magic, deadly court secrets, blood oaths, betrayal, slow-burning tension, dangerous attraction, and a heroine fighting to reclaim the one thing everyone else believes they have the right to control: her choice.
Perfect for readers who love powerful heroines, morally complicated rebels, hidden histories, corrupt royal families, forbidden attraction, ancient magical bargains, political intrigue, found family, and romances where love means freedom rather than ownership.
They taught her to survive every poison.
They never imagined she would survive them.
