The Labyrinth's Sacred Vessel

The Carnal Bestiary Volume 2

The world is choking on its last breath. The Oracle never lies.

Xanthe was raised on stories of the Lord-beast at the heart of the Labyrinth. She was taught that her life was a small price to pay for world order. When the fields shrivel to ash and the sacred river dies, she has no choice but to descend into the cold, shifting stone of the world's oldest promise.

She expected to be a sacrifice. She expected the end.

Instead, she finds a king forged from violence and geology. Theron is twice the height of any man, a mountain of obsidian hide and scorched bone horns. He does not want her blood; he wants her body. He requires a vessel to carry a lineage that will rewrite the laws of the surface world.

As the Labyrinth breathes around them, Xanthe finds herself caught in a primal bond. The fear that once paralyzed her transforms into a wild, addictive heat. Theron is monstrous, possessive, and inescapable. He marks her with blood and seals her fate with a biological claim that leaves her forever changed.

In the dark, steaming depths of the maze, a new order is born. The city sent a victim to placate a monster, unaware they dispatched a queen to claim a god.

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The Labyrinth's Sacred Vessel is a high-heat dark fantasy romance in The Carnal Bestiary series. It features a massive Minotaur King, a determined heroine, and scenes of primal possession and biological bonds. Happily Ever After guaranteed.