Die Verfluchten. Eskan und Lyra

When your enemy becomes your lover and your lover becomes your foe - a dark fantasy novel about the power of love and death. For all readers of Leigh Bardugo and Naomi Novik.

"She strides down the corridor like a queen. Warm sunlight falls on her pale skin, the hem of her pitch-black dress trailing on the floor. Her dark, daring eyes are expectantly fixed on me. I thought I was her doom, but I was mistaken. She would be mine."

While Lucius is on a secret mission for the king, his fiercest rival, Eskan, tries to win Lyra's favor to turn her against him. In doing so, Eskan begins a dangerous game with fire, as Lyra remains an opponent of the Kadask and seeks to manipulate him for her own ends. And she is not the only one resisting in her captivity: the rebels are plotting plans that will also determine Lyra's fate. Book 2 of the dark fantasy series "The Cursed." The game for the power of love and death continues.