From the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of THE THORNSREMAIN comes an enemies-to-lovers journey to the underworld unlike any other,for fans of THE CRIMSON MOTH and THE CRUEL PRINCE

An immortal vampire. A mortal bride. A vow that evendeath cant break.

Irina is about to be married to a dead man. She is thewilling village sacrifice for the Wedding of the Dead: a desperate ritualdesigned to lay the hungry vampire that has been terrorising her Transylvanianvillage to rest. Irinas beloved sisters soul is trapped in the land of thedead. If Irina can retrieve it, she could bring her back but Irina would needa guide, one who can walk between the living and the dead.

Irina strikes up a deal with her new husband if he agreesto get her safely there and back again, then he can drink her blood as much ashe wants.

They begin a perilous journey through the afterlifetogether, in which Irina realises Stefan isnt the cruel and terrifying monsterthat she thought. In a land of three-headed beasts, winged creatures andwalking corpses, the last thing Irina would have expected was to fall in love.

Only, Irina learns that by bringing Stefan to the land ofthe dead she has put him in grave danger, and will be faced with an impossiblechoice. Will they be able to make it out, undead or alive?

About The Author

JJA Harwood is an author, editor, and blogger. Shegrew up in Norfolk, read History at the University of Warwick, and eventuallyfound her way to London, which is still something of a shock for somebody usedto so many fields.

When not writing, she can be found learning languages,cooking with more enthusiasm than skill, wandering off into clearly hauntedhouses, and making friends with stray cats.The Shadow in the Glasswasher debut novel.