The release date for the English version of 'Cruel Beauty' by
Rosamund Hodge is Jan 2014. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Because of a stupid deal her father made, Nyx has been betrothed to the terrible monarch of her realm since infancy. She has also been trained to murder him from infancy.
Nyx hates herself for wishing to avoid her destiny and is angry at her family for never attempting to rescue her, leaving her with little alternative but to carry out her task. Nevertheless, Nyx gives up all she has ever known on her seventeenth birthday in order to wed the immortal, all-powerful Ignifex. Her scheme? Conceive him, demolish his magical stronghold, and lift the nine hundred-year-old curse he placed upon her people.
However, Nyx was not prepared for Ignifex at all. She is captivated by the oddly endearing ruler and his castle, an ever-changing labyrinth of mystical chambers.
Unwillingly, Nyx is pulled to Ignifex as she looks for a way to use learning his secrets to rescue her nation. How could she not murder her sworn adversary, even if she could make herself love him? Nyx has to choose between the guy she was never meant to love and the destiny of her realm before time runs out.