Slaying the Shifter Prince | Clare Sager | Bookish & Spice July 2025 Fantasy Romance edition

She was willing to sacrifice anything for revenge — but she never expected to gamble with her heart.

For ten years, aerial performer Zita has lived for one purpose: killing the notorious Prince of Monsters, the fae prince she holds responsible for her sister's death.

But when her carefully planned assassination fails, Zita becomes Sepher's prisoner — and his chosen pet. Cruel, obsessive and dangerously compelling, Sepher is everything she expected her enemy to be…and several things she didn't.

Trapped in a deadly game of punishment, attraction and revenge, Zita refuses to surrender. But the closer she gets to the monster she came to kill, the more complicated her hatred becomes.

A dark, spicy Beauty and the Beast-inspired fantasy romance packed with claws, curses, vengeance and a deliciously dangerous game of cat and mouse.

Genre: Dark fantasy romance / romantasy

Tropes/vibe: enemies-to-lovers • revenge • villain romance • fae/shifter prince • captivity • obsessive MMC • cat-and-mouse • Beauty & the Beast reimagining • spicy/dark themes.