A Dark Romantasy of Power, Fire, and a Love That Refuses Obedience
Fire was meant to be his ending.
Instead, it returned him to a life already shaped by expectation, duty, and a fate that once demanded his silence.
Aurelian Viremont awakens unburned, years before the marriage that would have sealed his life into a political bargain disguised as protection. His body is younger. His scars are gone. The ring that once bound him is missing. Yet the memory of fire?of endurance mistaken for loyalty, of obedience rewarded with betrayal?has followed him back intact.
This time, survival is not enough.
In Eldoria, power does not announce itself with cruelty. It arrives softly, dressed as responsibility. Marriage is not intimacy but leverage. Faith is not comfort but judgment. A man's worth is measured by how well he endures the shape carved for him.
Aurelian knows this world too well to mistake it for mercy.
As the wedding approaches and the walls of expectation tighten, he searches not for safety, but for resistance. His gaze turns toward the one figure the palace has never been able to contain?Cassian Blackthorn, the Marquis of the northern frontier.
A commander shaped by endless war, Cassian is spoken of as a god not because he is divine, but because he does not bend. He arrives when he chooses. He obeys without kneeling. He wields power without apology?and never uses the language of love to bind another man to him.
He offers no comfort.
He makes no promises.
And that is precisely why Aurelian trusts him.
What begins as a calculated proposal?an alliance forged from necessity rather than desire?draws both men into a bond neither intended to soften. Between them stand a kingdom that profits from sacrifice, a faith that names certain lives as sin, and a fire that remembers every pain it has ever taken as payment.
In Scorched by Fate, love is not salvation.
It is defiance.
A slow-burn M/M romantasy steeped in gothic atmosphere and political tension, this novel explores what it means to choose another person in a world that survives on obedience?and what remains when a man refuses to be shaped again.
For readers drawn to dark fantasy romance, enemies-to-lovers dynamics, arranged marriages, forbidden devotion, and stories where power and faith collide, Scorched by Fate begins a trilogy where fire does not cleanse?and love does not ask permission.
