Fate stole his memory, forging him into a deadly weapon. Fate slayed her innocent mother, breaking her heart. But fate’s greatest trick of all is yet to be revealed. When twenty-year-old Areya wakes up drenched in blood, her life of carefree innocence comes to a crashing halt. Accused of her mother’s murder and thrown in jail, she’s caught in a living nightmare she can’t escape. Then he appears. Dark-eyed and fearless, no mortal authority can stand in Ash’s way. Just as Hades led Persephone to the underworld, Ash whisks Areya out of her broken life, and into a whole new realm of trouble. But for all of Ash’s simmering power and deadly charm, he is not Areya’s hero and savior. He is a monster, sent to retrieve the young woman at any cost—even the life of her innocent mother. Together they descend into a cursed kingdom controlled by a king with a secret agenda. Areya is the key to all his plans, but why? In this new, dangerous reality she will need a protector and ally to survive, but she’d rather kill the man at her side than trust him. Fated is the first heart-racing novel in the “Fated” romantic fantasy series, but reader these enemies-to-lovers have molten chemistry and dark desires.