The Shadow Bride

She gave him her light. He kept her memories.

A hundred years ago, the sun vanished from the Twilight Realm. Since then, the shadows have crept a little further across the border every year, and every twenty years a bride is sent to the Shadow King to hold them back. Not one bride has ever returned.

Eira Valen, a lamplighter from the last city of light, is to be the sixth bride. But she is no sacrifice. She is a weapon: a forbidden sunseal burns in her chest, meant to destroy the Shadow King on their wedding night.

What no one told her: Kael Morrow knows exactly why she is coming. And he let her come anyway.

Every evening that Eira gives him her light, she forgets something. The name of a lamp. Her mother's song. The reason she came. Every memory she loses, he keeps in a lantern.

As her hatred fades, something else begins to grow. But when the seal finally breaks, she will have to choose: the man who made her forget everything, or the world she can no longer remember.

Perfect for readers who love: slow-burn romance, enemies to lovers, a marriage of convenience, a morally grey hero who is kinder than he looks, found family, and a love story that costs something.

Standalone. No cliffhanger. Happy ending guaranteed. Clean romance with no explicit scenes.