Of Blood and Roses

<p class=ql-align-center><em>He was born to shadow. She was chosen to bear the rose.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em> They were never meant to survive-let alone fall in love.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p>My name is<strong> Valerius Loran.</strong> I Turned on my eleventh birthday. Everything changed after that.</p><p></p><p>I have been running my whole life-from the Crimson Order from my cursed bloodline from the hunger clawing inside. But the first time I saw her I stopped. Eve was light and I was never meant to hold it.</p><p></p><p>Then they came for her. For us. And I remembered exactly what I was born to become.</p><p></p><p></p><p>My name is<strong> Evelyn Torreblanca.</strong> My eleventh birthday was supposed to pass in silence.</p><p></p><p>I didn't know monsters could have hearts-or that mine would beat for one. The day Val walked into my life the black rose bloomed. The blood awakened.</p><p></p><p>Now the Order wants control. His uncle wants war. And the darkness inside both of us is rising.</p><p></p><h5></h5><h5><strong>Love was the first sacrifice. And it just might be the last salvation.</strong></h5><h5></h5><h5></h5><p></p><p></p><h5><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>A gothic fantasy about blood choice and the bond between a girl and the boy who would burn the world for her...</em></strong></h5><h6></h6><h6></h6><h6><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Recommended for readers 9 years old and above. Some themes may be sensitive to young readers.</em></strong></h6>