The Poison Daughter
Harlow Carrenwell has a gift. Every man she kisses drops dead, and she's perfectly fine with that arrangement. As the youngest daughter of Lunameade's powerful founding family, she's spent years putting her lethal lips to political use, eliminating her parents' enemies one by one. One husband already buried. A new fiancé firmly in her sights. Simple enough, until it isn't. Because when Harlow finally kisses Henry Havenwood, her intended, he stays stubbornly, inconveniently alive. Worse still, he's witnessed her secret other life: a vigilante operation she runs under cover of darkness, protecting the city's abused women from the men who hurt them. Rather than expose her and spark a war between their rival families, Henry does something far more unsettling. He bundles her off to his remote mountain stronghold to marry her. Now Harlow is stuck deep in vampire-plagued woodland, bound to a man she can't dispatch, who knows exactly what she's capable of. Her only route home, and her only way to keep her family safe, is to work out what the Havenwoods are plotting. That means doing something she's never had to do before: making a man who knows she's a killer genuinely fall for her. Sharp, darkly funny, and carrying real emotional weight, 'The Poison Daughter' draws comparisons to 'Promising Young Woman' in its unflinching take on justice for women, while wrapping everything in an arranged-marriage romantasy with a satisfying gothic edge. It's a complete standalone story, so no cliffhangers to worry about either.
- Author: Sheila Masterson
- Genre: Fantasy
- ISBN: B0F39KK6B5
- Pages: 668 pages