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By day, she repairs broken books in a quiet shop no one notices. By night, the city fractures—and every cracked oath, failing ward, and shattered alliance pulls her closer to the center of a war she never wanted. She has a secret gift: she can bind what's been broken. Not just paper and ink, but magic, promises, and people who should never trust each other again. When four dangerous men—each powerful, each relentless, each carrying his own scars—come to her doorstep, they don't arrive as allies. They arrive as rivals. Enemies.

Scent has always been her secret weapon—until the city decides it belongs to her. By day, she's a reclusive perfumer with a wicked nose and a talent for bottling moods. By night, her experimental blends slip into the underground: confidence in a vial, calm on the tongue, desire in a breath. But when one scent rewrites reality instead of just emotions, every monster in the city looks up and scents blood.

She thought she was walking into a curse. Instead, she found five monsters who worshipped the ground she bled on. When her village offers her as sacrifice to the beast of the forest, she expects teeth, torment, and death. But the creature who claims her is not one monster—he is five. A winged guardian with a gaze like lightning. A drake whose heat melts her fear. A wraith who touches her through dreams. A wolf who chases her under the moon. And a horned king bound to the roots of the curse itself.