Prologue
_The Song of Ruin_
Long before kingdoms crowned monsters, the world breathed in harmony.
Fairies sang to the dawn, and Vampires ruled the dusk, and the two races danced on the edge of twilight. Love was not forbidden then—it was the bridge between darkness and light.
But peace is a fragile thing, and envy sharper than fangs.
When the Vampire King desired the Fairy Queen, and she turned him away, he burned the skies crimson and tore the realm in two.
From that night on, light and dark became enemies, and every drop of mixed blood was declared cursed.
They called it The Shattering.
No fairy dared love a vampire again.
No vampire dared show mercy.
Yet the old prophecy whispered that one day, a child of both sun and shadow would be born—one whose heart would beat in two rhythms.
One who would either end the war... or burn the world with it.
And somewhere, beneath the silver moon, a girl with pink eyes and a hidden vein of red dreamed of peace.
Unaware that her blood carried the ruin and salvation of them all.
