The Poison Daughter: US Edition by Sheila Masterson (Hardback)

A breakout standalone dark enemies-to-lovers romantasy from Sheila Masterson — about a woman whose lips are deadly poison, until she meets the one man who can survive her kiss. This US Deluxe Edition features a full-colour illustrated case, and the hardcover includes an exclusive bonus chapter.

Every person Harlow Carrenwell kisses dies immediately, and that’s exactly the way she likes it. The poison-lipped youngest daughter of Lunameade’s magical founding family, she has used her power to annihilate her family’s opposition on command. Her first husband is already in the ground; her mysterious new betrothed is meant to be next. But Harlow has a secret. When she isn’t acting as an assassin at her parents’ whims, she moonlights as a vigilante, hunting abusive men in their walled-off city — meet a man, lure him in, kill him with a kiss.

Until one night, she kisses a mark and he doesn’t die. Worse, the man immune to her kiss is her new betrothed, Henry Havenwood, and now he knows about her double life. To protect her secret and her city, Harlow has to get close enough to Henry to work out why the Havenwoods have reappeared after years of silence, and what they’re planning. Cursed with a husband she can’t kill and trapped in a fortress ringed by vampire-infested woods, her survival now depends on the impossible: making the one man who knows she’s a killer fall in love with her anyway.

This is a dark romantasy for mature readers; please check any content warnings before reading.

Perfect for readers who love dark enemies-to-lovers romantasy, a vigilante assassin heroine, a marriage-of-inconvenience to a man she can’t kill, feminine rage and a dash of vampires.