A feud born of vengeance. A curse born of hate. Is there a love strong enough to defy them both?
The Alvyrans, powerful sorcerers, and the Vireldas, powerful warlocks, have been locked in a bitter feud for generations. When Elois Virelda defied her family and married Antoine Alvyran, her father unleashed a curse upon their bloodline: none of their children would live past the rise of the Crimson Moon.
Now, thirty-two years later, that blood moon is only months away. Elois is long dead, and Antoine has never told his son Joaquin the truth—that only the love of a strong, kind wife can break the curse.
Enter Ester Marshak, a determined young witch who refuses to be bartered like livestock. But when Joaquin Alvyran confides in her, offering her the choice to walk away, her compassion binds her to him. Ester is determined to fight and break this curse, but the riddles about love being the key make no sense to her. Everything is a riddle, and she hates riddles.
Joaquin, who inherited his father’s sorcery and is the focus of the curse, believes he is going to die before the Crimson Moon rises, but he wants to at least court his wife and care for her before then. He doesn’t want her agreement to marry him to be in vain. But Rodic Virelda—the warlock who has turned himself and his clan into vampires, will stop at nothing to see the Alvyran heir destroyed, even before the curse can kill him.
A tale of forbidden love, family curses, and the fight against darkness—Curse Without Cause is a gothic fantasy of passion and peril where only love has the power to break the chains of fate.