Crown Me Dead: A Dark Fantasy Romance

At first, his refusal to take a queen was sheer stubbornness.” Vale rubs his thumb over his lower lip, his gaze getting lost in the world behind the curtain for a moment. “But the determination to break the curse he developed in the last year…” The last year? Not even from the drunks in the tavern.” “Because the royal families did a fine job of keeping the curse a secret. When Merrick passed on the curse, it was Kael who snatched the lifted crown. But maybe that was before he tore at his heart? “Death fashioned the crown currently sitting on Kael’s head, with powers as demanded,” Vale goes on, “but warned that he would weave a curse into the gold for the trickery.