A Touch of Treason

She was built to feel nothing. He is the first thing that burns.

Lyraea Belmonte is the Order of Radiance's most exalted weapon - a Guardian stripped of fear, desire, and every inconvenient human impulse. Fifteen years of holy numbness. Praised for her emptiness. Rewarded for being less than alive.

Then she touches a shard of forbidden shadow-magic, and wakes inside a dream that isn't hers.

Prince Cyprian rules a dying kingdom of perpetual twilight, where citizens queue to have their life-force drained and soldiers return as hollow shells. Lethal. Sardonic. Desperately lonely. Entirely unprepared for the Light-forged woman who crashes into his consciousness with bruises on her throat and a thirty-day deadline humming between them.

The tether that forms is immediate, involuntary, and catastrophic. She feels for the first time in fifteen years. He is touched without it being a transaction. And the bond between them creates something neither realm has seen in three centuries - Twilight. The only force that can stop the Void-Rot consuming both their worlds.

But Lyraea's Order calls the bond corruption. Cyprian's father calls it a weapon to be seized. And the man who made Lyraea hollow has no intention of letting his masterpiece feel.

To survive, she'll have to flee everything she knows with the enemy she was trained to destroy. To feel, she'll have to commit the only sin her Order cannot forgive.

Treason.

Dark Romantasy Forced proximity Soul bond Enemies to lovers "Who did this to you?" Touch-starved heroine Morally grey shadow prince Found humanity He falls first, she falls harder
Reader Discretion Advised: A Touch of Treason is an 18+ dark romantasy featuring explicit heat woven into the magic system. It contains horror-adjacent violence and themes of emotional trauma. Those who enter the Twilight should be prepared for a devastating sacrifice.