The Villain Duke Bought My Love

Duke Lucian holds a vial that contains Iris Vale's ability to love. He bought it at a public auction, and he says he did so to keep it out of the Crown's reach. Iris wants it back. The vial opens only with her consent, and she is the only person who can open it. Iris is twenty-six and works as an emotional auditor in a kingdom where feelings can be extracted, bottled and traded. Her stepfather forged a debt contract against her and put her romantic love up for sale to settle it. With the love gone she still feels anger, desire, compassion and a sense of justice. She and Lucian begin looking into the debt. The Royal Chancellor, Gideon, has been issuing forged debts across the kingdom and using them to tighten his hold on it. The love sealed in the vial is also the key to destroying the emotion market. Iris's missing mother, Evelyn, is being kept in the Mirror Vault.