⚠️ WARNING: This book is intended for mature readers . It contains graphic v*olence, predatory behavior, and explicit scenes .
"To save his brother, Zaliyah didn’t just walk into hell; he married the King of it."
Zaliyah is a hybrid abomination born from a forbidden love affair between a demon and a celestial. As such his birth was a dead warrant and his grandmother was the executioner.
Cast into the bottomless waterfall by his scornful grandmother, his end was supposed to be swift but fate offered him another chance; Adopted by a human family as the cherished , fragile young master of the Ruo Han mansion.
He is a boy of silk and silence, living only for the protective embrace of his elder brother, Karas.
But peace is a luxury the cursed cannot afford. When Karas is stabbed and left at death's door, Zaliyah strikes a desperate bargain to pull him back from the brink of death: a forced marriage to Malachi, the ruthless King of the Underworld.
A honorary banquet is held to introduce Zaliyah as the first Human consort to the demon subjects , but the night turns into a bloodbath . Two devastating truths are unmasked: Zaliyah is a celestial, and he is pregnant with Karas's child.
Consumed by rage, Malachi brutally beats the pregnant Zaliyah and throws him from the heavens, exiling him to the frozen wasteland of the Northwest Territory .
With the birth of his daughter, comes a new hope. Learning that there is no mercy for the weak, Zaliyah masters his forbidden powers, vowing never to be vulnerable again.
Now, the "White Lotus" has returned to the palace. Feigning amnesia and pretending to be submissive to gain Malachi’s trust, carefully plotting his revenge against Malachi the King that views him as a beautiful parasite and the venomous Queen Kizari.
To burn the Underworld to the ground, Zaliyah must abandon his morals and navigate a court of a thousand cuts, betrayal , poisons, and ancient wars.