A pretty good paranormal romance. I did get a little bogged down in the world that was created and some of the terminology. But this was strangely similar to a vampire romance, so at the same time, it wasn’t too unfamiliar.

In this book a princess is being forced to get married to a king who she fears will take advantage of her kingdom. So her big idea to get out of the marriage is to run away and take a lover so she’ll no longer be pure. Instead, she ends up almost getting kidnapped and flees into a dark, desolate kingdom for sanctuary. She ends up meeting and falling for one of the inhabitants. However, the king who wants to marry her is desperate and won’t give her up so easy.

Spoiler alert: She does not in fact marry the king. And the king becomes the hero of book 2 in this series. Which I’m not sure I will read because I didn’t get the best first impression of the king from this book.

Anyway, after a lot of trials and tribulations, our duo get their happily ever after and we get a peek into how book 2 of the series starts. This book was interesting and took place in an interesting world. The main couple met and fell in love very quickly. This is a story about finding a mate for life. So once they fell for each other, there wasn’t much either could do about it. But they ended up making an interesting pair.