Princess Bellanova has spent years surviving as an outlaw, her necromancy and thieving skills all that kept her alive after a curse cast her family into a deathless slumber and left her kingdom in ruin. Now she’s determined to die on purpose—because only in the underworld can she steal back Luminor, the Blade of Light, the weapon that doomed her family and the key to breaking the curse. But the blade is guarded by Aleksander, the fallen Light King who once wielded it against her and has been trapped in purgatory ever since. Forced into a fragile alliance, Nova and Aleks must navigate treacherous monsters, twisting magic, and a bond that burns hotter than either can resist. Yet the deeper they go, the clearer it becomes: some curses were never meant to be broken.