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Kiss of the Fates: An Enemies-to-Lovers Dark Fantasy Romance
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 28 2026
Pages: 366
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
She was his beginning. She will be his end. Everything in between is unforgivable-and they choose it anyway.
Edric Kairos Verr was left on a frozen ridge at four days old and raised by the cougar that found him. He hunts Hollows for coin, sleeps in the open, and has never once walked west. Then a raven drops a queen's summons at his boots, and the old brand on his heel wakes for the first time in five years.
Jocasta Vexen has worn a silver mask for twenty-seven years. She rules Shadeweave through a plague that eats names, visits a nameless cairn every winter without knowing why, and carries a scar below her collarbone she has never been able to explain. The night the Brand-Breaker crosses her gate, it begins to burn.
The mark on his heel and the mark on her chest were made in the same hour, from the same iron. Neither of them knows it. Something under the ribs of the world does, and it has been waiting a thousand years for the two of them to stand close enough to touch.
Shadeweave is dying. The Unmaking takes names first, then memory, then the body - and the only rite that has ever turned it back demands two souls already tethered by fate, willing to consume each other's names.
They are that pair. They are about to find out why.
Kiss of the Fates is a retelling of Oedipus Rex in which the lovers refuse the ending Sophocles gave them. Neither protagonist is redeemed. The novel does not punish them for what they choose, and it does not ask you to approve.
A standalone dark fantasy romance. 93,000 words.
Content note: For adult readers, 18+. Graphic violence, explicit sexual content, and dark and taboo themes. Full and specific content warnings appear at the back of the book.
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