Welcome to Soleil: magic is illegal, politics are deadly, and falling in love is the most dangerous act of all.

When Scarlett Heroux witnesses her father's assassination from mere inches away, her world shatters. The 22-year-old heiress to a political dynasty is thrust into her newly inherited seat in Parliament, compelled to fulfill her father's revolutionary dream of opening Soleil’s borders to a world of magic her people have long rejected.

After Scarlett announces her intention to open Soleil’s borders to magic, she is threatened, assaulted, and knocked unconscious. She flees to her mother's homeland where she discovers magic flowing through her veins and a fated bond she shares with her childhood friend, the handsome Brayden Maddox. Their smoldering connection—and years of mutual pining—ignites into a blaze when magic pushes them together. Yet as bodies and magic entwine, Scarlett resists surrendering to fate. How can she choose pleasure when the cost is leaving her country to the politicians behind her father’s murder?

With a dangerous, fated love hanging in the balance, she’ll have to return to the nation where magic is still a crime—and her father’s murderers are lying in wait. Scarlett must use her new powers to make them pay by any means necessary, legal or not.

If she fails, she’ll pay with her life.