For three hundred years, the Ashgrove and Nyx bloodlines have been trapped in a curse built on blood, betrayal, and impossible choices. Every generation produces a huntress sworn to kill a prince. Every blood moon brings another chance to end the cycle—and another pair destined to fail. Kira Ashgrove has spent her entire life preparing for one purpose: kill Prince Corvin Nyx. With the blood moon eleven days away, she enters his private garden with blades at her thighs and murder in her heart. But Corvin is waiting. He knows her name. He knows her mission. And he knows a secret her guild has hidden for centuries. At striking distance, an ancient counter-oath awakens, binding her to protect the man she was born to destroy. Now hunter and hunted must become reluctant allies. As danger closes around them, Kira and Corvin uncover a devastating truth: their families have not simply been victims of an ancient curse. Eleven generations have already failed to break it, while a hidden bloodline has watched from the shadows, profiting from every death, every broken promise, and every blood moon that ends in tragedy. Then Kira's supposedly dead sister, Sable, returns from the shadows—alive, hardened, and caught in a conspiracy reaching deep into the royal court. House Marrow is holding secrets. Corvin's cousin Aldric is plotting for the throne. And someone wants Kira and Corvin to fail before the final ritual can begin. Yet the greatest danger may be the price of freedom. To break the curse, one of them must willingly surrender the thing their bloodline values most. For Kira, that means the huntress gift that has defined her entire existence. For Corvin, it could mean something even more devastating: the crown itself. As forbidden attraction becomes undeniable love, they must decide whether they are willing to sacrifice everything they inherited for a future they were never meant to have. They will face assassins, political treachery, ancient magic, buried secrets, and a blood moon that has claimed eleven pairs before them. THE BLOOD-BOUND CROWN is a romantasy of enemies-to-lovers tension, fated bonds, court intrigue, curse-breaking magic, assassins, hidden conspiracies, and a love strong enough to challenge destiny. Kira and Corvin were born to destroy each other. The curse demands their sacrifice. The crown demands their loyalty. But love gives them another choice. When the blood moon rises, they must decide what they are willing to lose to become free.