Dark Emerald

For centuries, magic-users and elves have been openly hunted and killed, but when King Marro was put on the throne, he changed that order. Now they are to be collected. He gave some jobs or tasks tied to the realm, but others... Well, no one really knows what he's been doing to them. Until now.

Twenty-year-old Ayvre is just trying to provide for her family when she's captured, brutalized, starved, and forcibly bound, in a botched ancient ritual, to a man of a race she had thought long since exterminated.
Back home, she tries to forget the nightmare of that dungeon, but when she’s asked to go back to Emerald city to help with the investigation into her captors, she fiercely wants justice for herself and the other innocents that were in those cells.
Grayson, the dark vigilante she’s bound to unwillingly resurfaces, and together they uncover a horrifying plot to trigger magical properties in innocent people's blood. What machinations does mad King Marro have at play and can they escape his grasp?