She dreamed of the monster long before she became his bride. When a burning horse returns to Euphemia’s garden—the same omen that marked her father’s death—she knows it has come for her. Branded cursed and feared by her village, she accepts the only escape offered: a northern widow’s proposal of marriage to her reclusive son. But the cliffside fortress is no sanctuary. Her husband is nowhere to be found by day, and by night, Euphemia is pulled into dreams not her own—of endless corridors, phantom cries, and a horned figure wreathed in shadow and flame. In this place where old gods whisper beneath a fading faith, the boundary between dreaming and death begins to fracture, and Euphemia realizes the curse binding Dagfinn is tied to her own, and the fire that marked her may be the only thing powerful enough to save him. But to claim it, she may have to become the very monster they fear. Come walk the haunted halls of this gothic romantasy set against a Norse-inspired dream realm, featuring an arranged marriage, a cursed lord, dreamwalking, haunted castles, grief and healing, slow-burn romance, touch-her-and-die devotion, morally grey men, a monstrous transformation, and a heroine forced to embrace forbidden power.