A steamy twist on the tales of Hades and Persephone and the Beauty and the Beast... The
elves come for two things: war and wives. In both cases they come for death. Three-thousand
years ago humans were hunted by powerful races with wild magic until the treaty was formed.
Now for centuries the elves have taken a young woman from Luella's village to be their Human
Queen. To be chosen is seen as a mark of death by the townsfolk. A mark nineteen-year-old
Luella is grateful to have escaped as a girl. Instead she's dedicated her life to studying
herbology and becoming the town's only healer. That is until the Elf King unexpectedly
arrives... for her. Everything Luella had thought she'd known about her life and herself was
a lie. Taken to a land filled with wild magic Luella is forced to be the new queen to a cold
yet blisteringly handsome Elf King. Once there she learns about a dying world that only she
can save. The magical land of Midscape pulls on one corner of her heart her home and people
tug on another... but what will truly break her is a passion she never wanted. £8.99 Audio
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