Kalina’s sister is dying, and her last hope is a special fruit deep in a sacred forest. But the forest has a guardian, more powerful, and more mysterious than the forest itself. And when she touches the fruit she’s cursed to remain in the forest forever. Unless …
Illarion has spent millennia guarding his forest. Whether by his choice or not, the forest is now his, and no human woman will steal from him. Not now. Not ever. And if he can’t leave the forest, no one else will either.
Kalina can only break her curse if she steals the key of the forest. Except … the key is the Dark King’s heart, and she has to get him to remember how to use it, then steal it. And she only has three days.
