{"product_id":"marked-by-the-nyx-breaker-va-browning-9781971109060","title":"Marked By The Nyx Breaker: A Spicy Ticking Clock Fated Mates Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHe has seven days to live. She is the only cure. There's just one problem - the cure requires intimacy, and touching him might kill her.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCassius Noctis is the Nyx Breaker - a five-hundred-year-old vampire warrior built from shadow and war. Six months ago, a dying witch cursed him so that any physical contact causes mutual agony. He has been counting down his death in a stone safe house, alone, with nothing but black veins creeping toward his heart and a sad, wilting fern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRowan Ashford is a professional curse-breaker. She's broken hexes on three continents, survived losing her fiancé to magic she couldn't control, and treats supernatural emergencies with the detached precision of a surgeon. She does not do \u003ci\u003efeelings\u003c\/i\u003e. She does do \u003ci\u003esolutions\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen she removes her glove to touch his curse marks and nothing hurts - not for either of them - the Council has a new word for her: Shadow Twin. His fated mate. The only person in the world whose touch won't kill him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only cure for a death curse is also the one thing neither of them knows how to do: trust someone completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has seven days. She has a plan. The curse has other ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"You cannot touch me.\" \"I'm a curse-breaker, Cassius. Touching cursed things is literally in the job description. Do you think I break hexes via email?\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFated Mates \/ Shadow Twin Bond Ticking Clock - 7 Days to Live Forced Proximity - Council Safe House Lock Grumpy x Sunshine - Touch-Starved Warrior - Ritual Claiming - Intimacy Required to Break the Curse Protective Hero - \"I Am Dying but I Will Still Destroy Anyone Who Threatens Her\" Size Difference - He catalogues everything in the room for threats; she is one of the things Vampire Romance - Shadow Magic, Conversion, Fated Bond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA short, steamy paranormal romance. Can be finished in one sitting. HEA guaranteed. No cliffhanger.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook 3 in the Shadow Bound Mates series. Each book follows a different couple and can be read as a standalone. Best enjoyed after Book 1 (Claimed) and Book 2 (Stolen).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor Fans Of: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Court of Mist and Fury\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eThe Warlord Wants Forever\u003c\/i\u003e by Kresley Cole\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Va Browning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1971109061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781971109060\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nickanny Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d","brand":"Va Browning","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001791979775,"sku":"9781971109060","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/marked-by-the-nyx-breaker-va-browning-9781971109060","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}