A Duet with the Siren Duke – Kova Elise (2023)

Victoria risks everything to escape a dangerous marriage and begin a new life, but when her escape goes wrong, a mysterious siren offers her a choice between temporary salvation and immediate death. A cursed bargain is struck. Five years later, Victoria is alive and the world’s finest ship captain, but her debt to the siren remains, while her scheming ex-husband demands a king’s ransom for her freedom. Determined to protect her family, Victoria tries to settle everything before her time runs out. Then the siren comes for her six months early. Taken to the magical and deadly Eversea, home of the sirens, Victoria learns that she is the sacrifice on which they depend. To appease an angry god and save a world on the brink of destruction, they need her. Victoria uses this to strike a new bargain: the Siren Duke will save her family, and she will fulfill his demands. The arrangement changes when forbidden passion awakens in her scarred heart. As the sacrifice for the God of Death, Victoria is meant to give up everything that connects her to the living world, but she cannot stop thinking about how the handsome siren’s song and touch make her feel alive. In a realm of ancient magic, submerged secrets and forgotten gods, can love survive among shattered hearts as time runs out?