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The Poison Daughter

by Sheila Masterson

A dangerous kiss complicates a deadly engagement

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A dangerous kiss complicates a deadly engagement

Harlow Carrenwell has made her lethal kiss an instrument of her family’s power—and, in secret, a weapon against abusive men. The balance shifts when her new betrothed, Henry Havenwood, survives a kiss and discovers her hidden work. Their engagement then becomes a contest of proximity and secrecy: Harlow needs to learn why the Havenwoods have returned, while keeping both herself and her city safe. Set in a walled city beside vampire-infested woods, the novel combines paranormal romance with a heroine whose violence serves conflicting purposes. Its central tension hinges on the one person Harlow cannot kill and the danger of letting him close.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in paranormal romance with an enemies-to-lovers engagement.
  • Those drawn to heroines who lead secret lives as vigilantes or assassins.
  • Readers seeking vampire elements alongside themes of power, secrecy, and gendered violence.

Themes

Power and violenceSecret identitiesVigilantismTrust and intimacyParanormal romance

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Book overview

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller

The must-have, true enemies-to-lovers standalone romantasy about a woman whose lips are deadly poison . . . until she meets the one man who can survive her kiss.

This edition features a full-color illustrated case, designed endpapers, and an exclusive bonus chapter from Henry's POV.


In the absence of a conscience, men need something to fear. I've made myself their monster.

Every person Harlow Carrenwell kisses dies immediately, and that's the way she likes it. The poison-lipped youngest daughter of Lunameade's magical founding family has used her power to annihilate their opposition.

Her first husband is in the ground. Her mysterious new betrothed is next.

But Harlow has a secret. When she's not acting as an assassin at her parents' whims, she moonlights as a vigilante hunting abusive men in their walled-off city.

Meet a man. Lure him in. Kill him with a kiss. Until one night Harlow kisses a mark and he doesn't die.

Worse, the man immune to her kiss is her new betrothed, Henry Havenwood, and now he knows about her double life. The only way to protect her secret and her city is get close enough to Henry to figure out why the Havenwoods have reappeared after years of silence and what they have planned.

Cursed with a husband she can't kill and trapped in a fortress surrounded by vampire-infested woods, Harlow's survival requires her to do the impossible: Make the man who knows she's a killer fall in love with her anyway.

Tropes: Marriage of inconvenience / Feminine rage / Forced proximity / Touch her and die / Enemies to lovers / Vigilante FMC / Dash of vampires / Primal/fear play / "Who did this to you" / Dual POV
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