The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy

In this sequel to *The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy*, the stakes are high, the love is forbidden, and the slow burn turns steamy. Osric is a member of the Fyren Order, a guild of assassins who murder for money. Aurienne is a Haelan, a scholar-healer whose Order’s motto is "Harm to none." Clear-cut absolutes separate them—good and bad, right and wrong, light and dark—until they don’t.

When Osric first bribed Aurienne to heal him, he never imagined those lines would begin to blur. Every healing session draws the two of them closer together, and he finds himself developing unwanted feelings for Aurienne as her capable hands heal his body and his heart. Aurienne’s life has been thrown into chaos by the arrival of a handsome assassin. She should be in her research lab, not illicitly healing a Fyren every full moon or wrestling with an attraction that threatens to turn into something more.

Things go sideways when Osric and Aurienne discover more about the deadly Pox deliberately unleashed through the Tīendoms. The plague may be the work of an Order far nastier than either of them can handle. As the lines between Osric and Aurienne continue to blur, the balance between peace and war, and love and hate, trembles, shifts, and hinges on a heartbeat.

This Illumicrate Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features an exclusive redesigned cover on an acetate jacket (art by @frostbite.studios; design by @chattynora), full-colour artwork on the hardback (by @frostbite.studios), digitally printed edges (by @frostbite.studios), illustrated endpapers (by @flyora.art) with different designs on the front and back, and is digitally signed by the author.