The Serpent's Coil

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For two long years, Elara Thorne, the solitary Keeper of the Peaks, has been bound by oath to the desolate mountain sanctuary. Her sacred duty: guard the sealed crypt where Kaelen, the fabled Serpent King and dark sorcerer, lies in a magically induced coma. Once a terror across the realm, his name now merely a whisper of forgotten nightmares. Elara, pragmatic and fiercely independent, prayed he would never awaken, for his power was as destructive as it was alluring. But fate, or perhaps a failing ancient spell, has stirred the slumbering titan. Kaelen awakens, his memory fragmented, his raw power barely contained. To keep him confined within the sanctuary's walls, to prevent the return of his devastating reign—or worse, his capture by those who still seek his forbidden magic—Elara spins a desperate lie. She claims they are bound by a sacred, ancient betrothal ritual, that she is his appointed guardian and consort, destined to guide his lost soul. But Kaelen, even without his memories, possesses a dangerous intuition and a formidable will. As truth and deception intertwine, Elara finds herself caught in a perilous dance with a man whose awakening threatens to shatter her world, and perhaps even her heart.