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Dr. Alisa Thorne is a woman of facts. As a museum historian fighting to save her career from a ruthless boss, she has no time for superstitions, curses, or the sudden, icy dread triggered by a mysterious 17th-century Hungarian locket. But when the relic physically brands her flesh, Alisa's meticulously ordered academic life shatters, plunging her into a centuries-old nightmare. Bound by ancient blood to Julian, the enigmatic heir of a brutal aristocratic lineage, Alisa is violently thrust into the haunting, visceral memories of their ancestors' doomed passion. As they are forced to relive a devastating, dark romance they never chose, the lines between history and reality, predator and prey, begin to dangerously blur. To break the blood tie and save her soul, Alisa must navigate the treacherous velvet shadows of a forgotten, Gothic world. But how can she fight a curse that demands her total surrender, especially when the seductive pull of the past promises a love so powerful it transcends time itself? Can she untangle the sacred from the profane before history claims her entirely?
