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Weary Skullstalker, Vale, is given a rest from caring for his void when he is summoned to the mortal realm and presented with an offering: a strange, soft mortal woman.

He wants nothing to do with mortals, but it has been centuries since he last had an assistant. So he accepts their offering and spirits the mortal back to his increasingly needy void.

It is an immediate disaster. Not only does his void mysteriously start to rot, but his new mortal gets sprayed by a magical pollen. A pollen that awakens her deepest desires . . .

Meek Ivy Silverpetal has been given one duty: secretly weaken the Skullstalker void so her people can march inside and bind the Skullstalker to fight for them.

Ivy isn't expecting to get struck down by lust pollen. Vale insists it connects her to her deepest desires, but that isn't all: it also connects her to the void she just poisoned. The void that Vale once loved so much that it loved him right back.

With the pollen in her heart and a Skullstalker's void in her head, it's impossible to do anything but fall for Vale, who gets weaker with each day. Soon she'll have to make a decision: stand with him, or let her people claim him?

Contains mature themes.