The Emperor’s Enemy

The Emperor’s Enemy is an addictive true enemies-to-lovers dark romantasy with a heroine who doesn’t need saving, an enemy she can’t escape, and a war neither of them plans to lose. When the hunter is hunted… who becomes prey? Zora Ravenal didn’t join the Crimson Army to be a hero. She joined to destroy the empire. A skilled hunter hardened by loss with a concerning capacity for stubbornness, Zora claws her way into becoming a Knight Mage: the Commonwealth’s deadliest defense against the Empire’s storm magic and her people’s only hope. It almost works. Now she’s stuck in a war she can’t walk away from, hiding dangerous secrets, and shoved into very close quarters with the one man she should never be alone with. He’s a Royal Mage with a body count, a temper, and an unsettling obsession… with her. Now they’re partners. Sort of. If “partners” means being forced to train together, trust each other with their lives, and somehow not kill each other in the process. But the Royal Mage isn’t just dangerous—he’s paying attention. And the longer they’re forced to remain in each other’s orbit, the more twisted everything becomes. Who’s hunting who? “Delightfully unhinged... A five-star read, dripping in blood. Adored!” —Brigette Knightly, New York Times bestselling author of The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy

From the author of the Villains of Lore series comes a fantastical game of cat-and-mouse as a fearless Knight Mage and a deadly assassin circle each other in a contest that could define a kingdom. When the hunter is hunted, who becomes prey? She is Zora Ravenal: Knight Mage, Bear of the North, and only hope of her people against the ravenous empire. He is Aleksander the Sadistic: divinely ordained emperor and royal mage, hellbent on capturing Zora, once and for all. The Emperor will use everything and everyone in his power to possess her, even Tarantula, the deadliest assassin in the empire’s arsenal. But there is something they don’t realise. Zora is hunting them back… For each, this obsession might prove their downfall.

She came to destroy the empire. She didn’t expect to fall for its most dangerous weapon. Enter the world of The Emperor’s Enemy, the first book in Jasmine Mas’s Unsurvivable Love Duet. Zora Ravenal has one goal: destroy the empire. As a skilled hunter and newly minted Knight Mage, she’s determined to become one of the Commonwealth’s most formidable weapons against the Empire’s storm magic. There’s just one problem. She’s been paired with a Royal Mage who is, in every possible way, her enemy. He’s dangerous. Infuriating. Completely off-limits. And, unfortunately, far too interested in her. Now Zora and her sworn enemy are forced to train together, fight together, and trust each other with their lives. Because apparently surviving a war wasn’t difficult enough without adding him to the equation.