Brutal Rival by Ember Holt

A cast out princess thirsting for revenge.
A powerful rival who wants her all to himself.
An evil queen hells-bent on bringing the world to heel.

Scarlett Bloodletter narrowly escaped her own assassination at fourteen. Reduced to all kinds of deplorable things to survive the harsh streets of the kingdom’s poverty-stricken “Underbelly,” Scarlett has grown into a feared criminal with two things on her mind: kill the queen and liberate her sisters, the only people she has a heart for…until Zane.

Zane, the Spider Lord, is a fearsome gang leader of the Underbelly known for decapitating his victims and poisoning his rivals. There’s only one thing he more fiercely protects than his territory: Scarlett.

After one passionate night leads Zane to discover Scarlett’s dirty secret, he’s helpless to resist her cause. After all, what’s more exciting than plotting to kill a queen?

Category: Paranormal Romance

He’s got a penchant for punishment, and she’s been a naughty princess.

Lily has never been the delicate flower she was named after. She preferred silly pranks and dirty poetry to needlepoint and politics.

Alastair is an honor-bound knight, tied to a prophecy from his people, and he doesn’t experience desire. At least, that’s what he likes to tell himself. In truth, he wants nothing more than to sweep his ward off her feet and take her away to a dark corner of the world where he can keep her safe from that dark prophecy.

When their journey home from the royal academy lands Lily in the custody of cutthroat pirates, Alastair will stop at nothing to protect his princess. But the biggest danger of all may be Alastair himself, because if Lily doesn’t stop trying to make him break his vow of chastity, he may forget about honor and risk everything to have her to himself.

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