A kidnapped queen. A prince forged by pain. A fated bond she refuses to accept.

Izidora thought she had escaped the darkness.

After surviving twenty-one years in chains, she found freedom, friendship, and a possessive protector in Kazimir. But her return to the Night Realm ends in blood when the Iron Fae attack, drug her, and drag her away from everyone she had learned to trust.

When she wakes, she is chained again.

Her captor is Prince Ruslan of the Iron Realm: dark, magnetic, and terrifyingly powerful. First, he locks Izidora in a cage. Then he reveals a prophecy that declares they are fated mates—and insists Kazimir was never hers at all.

Izidora refuses to believe him.

She will fight him. Manipulate him. Escape him. Whatever it takes to return to the Nighthounds and the male who saved her from her first prison.

But Ruslan is not the monster she expected. Beneath his arrogance and brutal control lies a male shaped by his own torment, one who understands her rage, her survival instincts, and the wounds no one else can see. The longer Izidora remains in the Iron Realm, the harder it becomes to ignore the dangerous pull between them.

Meanwhile, Kazimir gathers the other Fae realms for war, determined to tear the Iron Realm apart to get what is his.

Caught between the possessive High Lord who broke her chains and the ruthless prince who claims their souls were bound by fate, Izidora must decide whether prophecy is another cage…

Or the key to becoming someone no king can control.