He's a monster cursed to live in shadow. She's the only one who can survive his touch.Rosalind is a simple botanist's apprentice, but her life is anything but normal. Quiet, predictable, and lonely, her unnatural immunity to the world's deadliest poisons has made her an outcast. She's more comfortable with plants that kill than with the fussy, fearful people who buy them.Her strange gift goes unnoticed until a shadow rips her from her world. She is abducted and taken to a dying, sunless realm by its ruler: Valerius, the terrifying Nightshade King.Valerius is a Fae king consumed by a hundred-year Blight, a curse that has warped his body into a monstrous cage of darkness and thorns. He is a monster who believes he is beyond saving, and his land is rotting along with him.He hasn't brought Rosalind to be a prisoner; he's brought her to be a miracle.His only hope for survival is the Umbralily, a legendary flower of pure, concentrated spite that kills all who touch it. But Rosalind's immunity makes her the only person in any realm who can handle the cure.Thrown into a decaying greenhouse, Rosalind is forced to work under the King's desperate, watchful eye. She is his captive, his gardener, his last and only chance.But the closer she gets to the cure, the more she realizes the plant doesn't just need her skill. It needs him. It feeds on the very shadow of his curse. To save his kingdom, they are forced into a reluctant, dangerous intimacy.He is terrified of his own touch, but she is the one person his poison cannot harm. As she works to heal the monster, she begins to unravel the man beneath-a king broken by a century of loneliness and a devastating sacrifice that cost him everything.This dark and angsty Gothic romance is a complete, stand-alone novel perfect for fans of Beauty and the Beast retellings, captive/captor romance, and enemies-to-lovers. If you love a grumpy, tormented Fae king with "touch her and you die" energy, a steady, practical heroine with a secret power, and a slow-burn romance that will break your heart, you will be enchanted by The Nightshade King.