When The Stars Alight – The Essence of the Equinox Book 1

A maiden of the stars. A monster from the shadows. A collision that rewrites their worlds.

Princess Laila Rose is a fallen star in human form. A beloved guardian to humanity. Yet in spite of these fantastical origins, she has never much believed in prophecies. That’s why when a demon of apocalyptic legend is presented to her in a block of ice, she feels fascination rather than fright.

Curiosity kindles into mutual desire once he breaks free of his captivity. Far from the rampaging beast of mass destruction everyone expects—he is monstrously handsome, deviously articulate and alluringly mysterious, a prince among his kind. Eager to discover his origins, Laila travels from her idyllic seaside realm into a land of unspeakable horrors, relying on her wits to survive her journey. She arrives aiming to establish peaceful contact with the aid of the besotted prince.

However, it becomes clear that the heartless demon king does not desire peace at all, only war and conquest. When diplomacy fails, Laila turns to the king’s suave and manipulative bastard son in the hopes that she can inspire both him and his trueborn brother to go against their father. But soon it is her heart she must keep from being torn between their centuries-old dangerous rivalry.

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It has decadent prose, with a savoury pace that leaves you turning the page one after another until you realize it’s 4 am and you have to wake up to go to work soon. But, the sleepless and timeless days spent lost in this book are worth every moment.

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★★★★★
Reading this book is much like watching a horror story unfold through rose-tinted glasses, and in the best of ways.

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★★★★★
For a while now, I was always finding books that didn’t really drag me into their world and the story itself. I was craving the feeling, when you can forget about where you are, and live in another realm with the characters surrounding you. And with When The Stars Alight, I could finally scratch that itch.

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