Throne of Secrets
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5,0 • 1 Bewertung
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- 12,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
A sinful prince. A determined reporter. A dangerous rivalry.
Gabriel Axton -the Prince of Gluttony, self-proclaimed rake of rakes - lives for indulgence. But when a hunt takes a deadly turn, he realizes something is very wrong in his demon court. With the clock ticking, he must turn to the one person who can uncover the truth: a journalist he has spent a decade avoiding . . .
Adriana Saint Lucent has been on the hunt for years - if she could just report something damning about Gabriel Axton, she knows others would finally see the no-good demon as she does. But she never expected to turn up a rumour too terrifying to be believed. And soon Adriana's investigation leads her to the place she dreads most . . . Axton's infamous court.
To stop darkness from falling over their kingdom, Axton and Adriana will have to unite against an escalating danger. But with each holding tight to their own secrets, can they find the truth before it's too late? And what will they do with an equally troubling rumour: that they might not hate one another, after all?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Maniscalco (Throne of the Fallen) continues her Prince of Sin series in this alluring "Cinderella" retelling with an enemies-to-lovers twist. Gabriel Axton, or Prince Gluttony, is infamous for his indulgence in beautiful women, lavish parties, and thrilling dragon hunts. His notoriety is partly due to the efforts of feisty gossip journalist Adriana Saint Lucent, who has written scathing reports on the prince for years. When an ice dragon unexpectedly kills one of Gluttony's men, the prince races to understand what provoked the attack. To distract his people from the possible threat, Gluttony holds a competition to find a wife, with one contestant from each noble House of Sin. Adriana's younger sister, Eden, is among the chosen, and Adriana seizes the opportunity to dig up dirt on the prince when the family move into House Gluttony for the competition. The line between love and hate is blurred as Adriana and Gluttony's barbed banter gives way to simmering sexual tension. As the threat of a dragon war grows, the pair comes together to confront a dark memory of their shared past. Despite a rushed ending and some underdeveloped subplots, Adriana and Gluttony's slow-burning romance and electric chemistry carries the story and the vivid world is fun to revisit. Readers will eagerly await the next installment.
