What the Shadow Keeps

Elara Vance is a librarian, content with a life lived between the pages of books. She is ordinary. But when she accidentally awakens an ancient Fae artifact, she becomes the unwilling obsession of Kaelen, the ruthless Shadow King. He's a villain who wants to break the world, and she's his beautiful new puzzle. Trapped in his dark palace, she discovers that while the world's hero may sacrifice her for the greater good, this monster would burn the world down just to keep her safe. His darkness doesn't change, it just finds a new center: her.