The most dangerous alchemy of all is that of a heart in love, facing an evil intent on destroying it. What happens when all the folklore, myths, and legends of every corner of the earth, are forced into one realm to fight and claw for power? What if those very legends slay their own creators - gods and goddesses whom humans both feared and worshipped, banished so there is nothing left but a land riddled with a mysterious Sickness, and the creatures of nightmare and horror, still hungry for control? They start hunting. Hunting me. For I am a creature, the last of my kind, that has a power even magic cannot match. Hundreds of years have I hidden, evading. Yet, one boy could be my undoing. One Viking Queen, my downfall. One Prince of Nightmares -- my salvation. Join Melisandre in the first book of the Tria Prima Series, an action-packed DARK FANTASY ROMANCE with a plot that twists and turns and tugs at your heartstrings, and LOTS of steam! It does contain explicit scenes and is meant only for mature audiences. Trigger Warnings are provided. This book does end on a cliffhanger.