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When your death is just the beginning and love lurks in the courtyard of hell.

“The Betrayed Heart” is the first installment of the page-turner trilogy “Empire of Sins and Souls” by bestselling author Beril Kehribar: Dark fantasy with a morally gray cast and a heroine for whom death is not the end.

Zoé Durand is a sinner. A liar, a prostitute, and a notorious thief. After a fateful night, she must add another title to her list: murderer. It’s no wonder she finds herself in Xanthia after her execution, the last stop before the gates of hell. Suddenly, Zoé is faced with hungry Xathyr who crave the sins in her blood. Just in time, the attractive Xathyr count Alexei offers her a pact: she is to steal three relics for him—in exchange for her freedom. But just when Zoé thinks she has met Xanthia’s most dangerous demons, the dark prince Kaspar appears—Alexei's greatest enemy and the Xathyr that the entire court lives in fear of. Zoé is equally repulsed and fascinated by Kaspar's shadow. She has yet to realize that she should trust neither Kas nor Alexei.

These tropes are included (selection):

• Strangers to lovers
• Emotional scars
• Touch her and die / Touch her and I kill you!
• Who did this to you?

Spicy fantasy with a gothic touch for an adult audience.

Beril Kehribar is the bestselling author of the dark New Adult duology “Shadow Throne.” With “Empire of Sins and Souls,” she has created a fantasy romance trilogy full of intrigue, secrets, bloodthirsty demons, and sexy lords of hell.

The dark fantasy story continues in “Empire of Sins and Souls 2: The Stolen Heart” and concludes in “Empire of Sins and Souls 3: The.”.