The Poison Daughter
Sheila Masterson
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
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Explicit open door [?]
· 91 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 26
- enemies to lovers 23
- primal/chase play 22
- vampires 21
- m-f romance 20
- arranged/forced marriage 19
- magic 19
- vengeance 19
- exhibitionism 17
- independent heroine 16
- rich heroine 14
- aristo/royal heroine 14
- dark romance 13
- competent heroine 13
- dangerous heroine 13
- sassy heroine 13
- forced proximity 12
- political/court intrigue 12
- tortured heroine 12
- take-charge heroine 12
- rich hero 11
- disabilities & scars 11
- marriage of convenience 8
- betrayal 8
- hurt/comfort 7
- monsters 6
- alpha male 6
- slow burn 5
- royal hero 4
- high fantasy 4
- possessive hero 4
- horror 3
- gifted/super-heroine 3
- grumpy/ice queen 3
- late 20s fmc 3
- criminal heroine 3
- tortured hero 3
- caretaking 2
- medieval 2
- bisexuality 2
- in his 30s 2
- masc-dom 1
- spanking 1
- bodyguard/protector hero 1
- bad boys 1
- grumpy/cold hero 1
- non-human hero 1
- warlord/commander hero 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- past abuse 21
- death / grief 20
- mental trauma 19
- past child abuse 16
- torture of mcs 11
- torture of side characters 11
- past child neglect 10
- dubious consent 8
- body betrayal 7
- graphic violence 6
- abuse 5
- non-consent between mcs 5
- misogyny 4
- victim blaming 3
- third party abuse 3
- mental illness 1
- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 16
- first person pov 13
- standalone 6
- male pov 5
