The Poison Daughter
Sheila Masterson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
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Explicit open door [?]
· 85 ratings · 668 pages · Published: 03 Oct 2025
Every person Harlow Carrenwell kisses dies immediately, and that’s the way she likes it. The poison-lipped youngest daughter of Lunameade’s magical founding family has used her power to annihilate their opposition.
Her first husband is in the ground. Her new betrothed is next.
But the merry widow has a secret. When she’s not acting as an assassin at her parents' whims, she moonlights as a vigilante for abused women in their walled-off city.
Meet a man. Lure him in. Kill him with a kiss. Until one night Harlow kisses a mark and he doesn’t die.
Worse, her invincible partner in passion is her new betrothed, Henry Havenwood, and now he knows about her double life. Instead of selling her out and bringing the rival families to blows, he does something much more sinister—whisks her away to wed in his wild mountain fort.
Harlow doesn’t trust Henry, but the only way to protect her family and the city of Lunameade is to figure out what his family is planning.
Cursed with a husband she can’t kill and trapped in a fort miles of vampire-infested woods from home, Harlow’s survival requires her to do the impossible: Make the man who knows she’s a killer fall in love with her anyway.
The Poison Daughter is a standalone dark fantasy romance that combines the vigilante justice for abusive men of Promising Young Woman with a romantasy arranged marriage and a dash of vampires.
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Tagged as:
- fantasy 25
- enemies to lovers 22
- primal/chase play 21
- vampires 20
- m-f romance 19
- arranged/forced marriage 18
- magic 18
- vengeance 18
- exhibitionism 16
- independent heroine 15
- rich heroine 13
- aristo/royal heroine 13
- dark romance 12
- competent heroine 12
- dangerous heroine 12
- sassy heroine 12
- forced proximity 11
- political/court intrigue 11
- tortured heroine 11
- take-charge heroine 11
- rich hero 10
- disabilities & scars 10
- marriage of convenience 7
- betrayal 7
- hurt/comfort 6
- monsters 5
- alpha male 5
- slow burn 4
- horror 3
- royal hero 3
- high fantasy 3
- possessive hero 3
- medieval 2
- gifted/super-heroine 2
- grumpy/ice queen 2
- late 20s fmc 2
- criminal heroine 2
- tortured hero 2
- masc-dom 1
- caretaking 1
- spanking 1
- bodyguard/protector hero 1
- bisexuality 1
- bad boys 1
- grumpy/cold hero 1
- non-human hero 1
- in his 30s 1
- warlord/commander hero 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- past abuse 20
- death / grief 19
- mental trauma 18
- past child abuse 15
- torture of mcs 10
- torture of side characters 10
- past child neglect 9
- body betrayal 7
- dubious consent 7
- graphic violence 5
- non-consent between mcs 5
- abuse 4
- misogyny 4
- victim blaming 2
- third party abuse 2
- mental illness 1
- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 15
- first person pov 12
- male pov 5
- standalone 5
