Once Upon a Demon's Heart

Alira is a demigod knight and a daughter of Venus. She is caught in a time loop, and each time it turns, the demon kingdom's Blood Knight kills her. She carries guilt over her part in the attack on the village of Thornhall.

After her twentieth death, she tries something new to end the war between demigods and demons. She will marry the man who keeps slaying her.

That man is Kalel, a demon duke and a devourer who feeds on the gilded blood of demigods. He has every reason to despise her. Tied to her by the match, he fights his hatred while something warmer takes hold.

This is a dark romantasy built on enemies-to-lovers tension, a marriage of convenience and the repeating loop. It opens the Cruel Fates duology, which continues in Once Written in Gilded Blood. Reviewers flag violence, threats of torture, abuse and explicit sex.

As the two work together, they find signs that the gods may be steering events. The war may not be what either side was told, and Alira's next death could be her last answer.