Daggermouth (The Heart Duology Book 1) by H.M. Wolfe

A razor-edged dystopian romance set in a corrupt surveillance city where the masked elite control everything—and love outside your assigned bond is a death sentence. Daggermouth is a true enemies-to-lovers with forced marriage stakes: an assassin who fails her shot, the president’s son she was hired to kill, and a political union that turns into a battlefield… and maybe the spark of revolution.

In New Found Haven, mercy doesn’t exist, and the Veyra are always watching—from the glittering atriums of the privileged rings to the windowless slums of the Boundary. The city is carved into strict tiers of power and poverty, obedience is demanded, and rebellion is crushed. The hardest rule of all: love outside of your ring is a death sentence.

Greyson Serel lives a double life—publicly the flawless heir to the presidency, privately tangled in secrets that could topple the regime. When he’s forced into a political marriage designed to tighten the government’s grip, he expects a compliant bride. Instead, he’s shackled to Shadera Kael: a mercenary raised to kill, not to wed. After her assassination attempt misses, survival binds her to the very man she was sent to eliminate—now trapped in the city’s corrupt heart as both prisoner and wife, her every move monitored.

Their marriage isn’t a love story—it’s war. As betrayals rot from the inside and hidden truths surface, Greyson and Shadera have to choose: destroy each other… or burn the city down together.

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