Hel’s henchman, come to reclaim his obsession. An elf newly free, desperate to find her dragon. A mate bond he’ll exploit to feed his twisted desires—if she lets him. Wregen gave himself to Hel, the queen of the dead, centuries ago. She trained him to be like her, to covet the dark pleasures she permits. He keeps only one secret from his cruel mistress: his fixation on Finaan, a living elf he helped trap in Helheim. Even Finaan doesn’t know the things Wregen has done to her while she slept or how much he needs her. But then she escapes, and Wregen is sent to retrieve her or suffer Hel’s wrath. Finaan has no idea why she craves Wregen, why he filled her depraved dreams in Helheim. Those unwelcome desires don’t matter now, though. She’s free, trying to put Hel’s realm behind her and find the dragon she thought dead. So when Wregen appears and abducts her, Finaan fights him and her traitorous body, as she searches for a way to return to the land of the living. Will Wregen drag Finaan to Helheim, or can she dig out the remnants of a soul that Hel thinks she destroyed? Wretched Wrath is the provocative first book of The Helheim Duet, a dark fantasy romance set in the same universe as Tales of the Vanir (TOTV). Expect a slow burn that won’t be satisfied in this book and a cliffhanger ending. If you’re craving an unhinged MMC, a fierce FMC, enemies-to-lovers, fated mates, forced proximity, and he falls first, along with plenty of banter and tension, you’ve found your next obsession. If you haven’t read TOTV yet, that series is best read first. Wretched Wrath contains spoilers, particularly for Books III and IV. Wretched Wrath contains content many readers will find disturbing, including non-con involving fingers, memories of non-con by the MMC while the FMC slept, graphic torture and violent deaths. It includes frequent profanity and spice (but not on-page sex; that’ll come in Book II). For a full list of triggers, please see the book’s “Content Warning” page.
Author
Rochelle Wilcox was born and raised in Las Vegas, where she learned at an early age the value of fantasy and escape. Raised by a single mom—one of the first women trained to deal poker in the early 70's—Rochelle spent more time in casinos than most adults. She and her husband decided to leave the desert behind and raise their sons in Northern California, where they spent as much time on the water with their boys as they could. Despite her lifelong passion for story-telling, Rochelle's path took her to law school and then to a practice focused on media law and appeals. But her love of writing wasn't sated with briefs bound by legal principles and a fealty to facts. And so she set to paper the story that had been playing in her mind for years, based on the Norse mythology she loved as a child. Rochelle retired from her legal practice in 2022 to travel and write. She released her first book, Lost Long, Book I of The Road to Ragnarök, in 2012, and the rest of that four-book series in 2022. Book IV, Heavy Heart, was named N. N. Light's Book Heaven's Best Romantic Fantasy of 2022, and it was one of three finalists for Best Indie Book of 2022. Her current series, Tales of the Vanir, is fully drafted and will be rapid-released in 2025, starting with Sacred Struggle on May 22. The remaining three books in this series will be released every five weeks: Frenzied Fate on June 26; Divine Dilemma on July 31; and Mythical Menace on September 5.
