Cruel Beauty
Cruel Beauty
Author: Rosamund Hodge
Desc: Since birth Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth she has been in training to kill him. With no choice but to fulfill her duty Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. Still on her seventeenth birthday Nyx abandons everything she's ever known to marry the all-powerful immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him destroy his enchanted castle and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people. But Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. The strangely charming lord beguiles her and his castle—a shifting maze of magical rooms—enthralls her. As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex's secrets she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom or the man she was never supposed to love.