"I was a monster . . . I was the Serpent Queen."The Serpent Queen has ruled over the Queendom of Phantamos for nearly eight decades, keeping her people in line through fear and her penchant for executing her opposition. When rumors spark of another rebel group forming, the Serpent Queen is forced to come face to face with the one man she hates most . . . the immortal she bargained her soul away to: The Serpent King.Their confrontation won't be like last time, she vows, not only because the Serpent Queen has changed much during her reign, but because this time, she is not alone. When the mortal bodyguard she has grown close to and the immortal king who owns her soul finally meet, tensions rise. She finds herself caught between the two men in her life: her loyal bodyguard who has stood by her side as she ruled, and the immortal who knew her as just Seera, before all of this, and was the only man to ever break her heart.When the gods decide to meddle in the affairs of the King and Queen, power will become the most important thing to Seera. But with her quest for power comes something she might not be able to resist . . . love.