Daggermouth (The Heart #1)
H.M. Wolfe
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
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· 74 ratings · 564 pages · Published: 05 Dec 2025
The first thing you’ll learn in New Found Haven is that mercy doesn’t exist. The second thing is that, from the highest glass atrium in the Heart to the windowless slums of the Boundary, the Veyra are always watching.
The last lesson is the hardest, but you must remember it: Love outside of your ring is a death sentence.
The city is carved into rings of privilege and poverty, ruled by the masked elite who will do whatever it takes to hold onto power. Obedience is demanded. Rebellion is crushed.
Greyson Serel has spent his life caught between two worlds. Publicly, he’s the flawless heir to the presidency. Privately, he’s entangled in secrets that could topple the regime. But when he’s forced into a political marriage meant to bind him tighter to the government’s brutal laws, he finds himself shackled to a bride as lethal as she is unwilling.
Shadera Kael is a mercenary raised to kill, not to wed. Yet when her bullet misses its mark, survival leaves her tied to the very man she was sent to eliminate. Trapped inside the corrupt heart of the city, she becomes both prisoner and wife, her every step watched, her every move tested.
Their union is no love story—it’s a battlefield. As secrets come to light and betrayals fester within the walls of power, Greyson and Shadera must decide between annihilating each other or burning the city to the ground together.
In a world where passion has consequences and loyalty is paid for in blood, their forced bond may be the spark that ignites a revolution. Or the fire that consumes them both.
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Tagged as:
- dystopian 13
- enemies to lovers 13
- forced proximity 11
- arranged/forced marriage 10
- class difference 10
- military 8
- science fiction 7
- m-f romance 7
- grumpy/ice queen 7
- grumpy/cold hero 6
- dark romance 5
- other man/woman 5
- tortured heroine 5
- tortured hero 5
- disabilities & scars 5
- dangerous heroine 5
- criminal heroine 5
- political/court intrigue 4
- take-charge heroine 4
- vengeance 4
- independent heroine 4
- betrayal 3
- love triangle 3
- forbidden love 3
- competent heroine 3
- futuristic 2
- hurt/comfort 2
- poor heroine 2
- warlord/commander hero 2
- fantasy 1
- urban fantasy 1
- found family 1
- new adult 1
- marriage of convenience 1
- mystery 1
- black mc 1
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- graphic violence 8
- misogyny 8
- past sexual abuse 7
- abuse 6
- torture of mcs 6
- death / grief 5
- past abuse 4
- substance abuse 4
- child sexual abuse 3
- past child abuse 2
- no hea 2
- nontraditional hea 1
- Format
- third person pov 5
- dual pov 2
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The 'The Heart' series
4.29 · 74 ratings
betrayal · m-f · independent heroine · futuristic · fantasy · forced proximity · mystery · dangerous heroine · poor heroine · misogyny · non-trad-hea · cold hero · past-sexual-abuse · arranged marriage · dark · graphic-violence · torture-mcs · child-sexual-abuse · love triangle · death
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