Between Two Kings

Tem never meant to love a king—let alone two. Yet here she is, caught between the serpent who owns her body’s truth and the human ruler who claims her heart. And with war rising between basilisks and men, desire may be the most perilous battlefield of all. Once a simple farm girl, Tem has tasted power now—its sweetness, its violence, its pull. Embracing her basilisk blood changed everything. When she crested Leo, she thought she was setting him free. Instead, it bound them with a hunger neither of them can outrun. Married to Caspen, drawn to Leo, Tem walks a razor’s edge of loyalty and longing. Rules, loopholes, ancient magic—none of it can smother the heat between her and the Serpent King. And if they give in? Their desire might be the spark that sets an entire kingdom ablaze.