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Half-elf Ashryn Brinell lives between two worlds. Fostered with her human cousin Carisa, she braves a gown and heels for her cousin’s arranged wedding to a captain of the duke’s guard. When the groom turns out to be the handsomest man she’s ever seen, she’s happy for her cousin. And when Carisa disappears on the night before the marriage, the only person who will help Ashryn search for her is the jilted guard captain himself.<br/>Connor Black’s skill and courage have raised him to a trusted position in the duke’s private guard, but his true identity haunts him from a childhood plagued with the magic of his unstable parents. His fiance’s disappearance leads him and the fiery Ashryn into the dangerous world of an elf drug called Bliss. The trail points back to the place he swore he’d never return to: home.<br/>Ashryn will stop at nothing to find her cousin. Connor is duty-bound to root out the source of the drugs that are sweeping through Concadia. As they fight their growing attraction, they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the peace between elves and humans, and their search for Carisa reveals the deadly power of magic in the hands of an obsessed man with nothing to lose.