The Cruorem Curse

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Blood remembers.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>And the Cruorem line bleeds deepest of all.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Princess Antoinette was born beneath a red moon and raised behind the stone walls of Yazara's palace her immortal heart a secret even her silks cannot disguise. She is no half-breed shadow of legend but a full vampire: cursed to hunger destined to rule and heir to a kingdom balanced on the knife-edge of war.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>On the night of the Commonwealth Ball celebration turns to omen. A phantom archer shatters the music a Seer arrives with a dragon at her heel and a prophecy coils through the halls like smoke:</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>White hair like bone. Blood that floods the world. Betrayal written in a brother's hand.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>As rival kingdoms stir and the ruthless Brotherhood sharpens its nightshade blades Antoinette must walk a path littered with forgotten gods and buried treacheries. Ancient tapestries whisper of dragons who never truly died. Her father hides truths that could unmake a dynasty. And somewhere in the Outskirts the man who took her mother's life waits.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>To claim her birth right she must embrace the magic in her veins a power that tastes of storm and iron even as it threatens to consume her. The curse that made her will demand a price: love or kingdom heart or soul.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The moon is rising.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The hunters are waiting.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>And the heir of Yazara will either break the curse...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Or become it.</span></p>