Lady of the Rose: A Dark Gothic Romance of Obsession and Transformation (The Faerie Queene Revisited: Dark Romantasy Fever Dreams) by Madchen Angell

A scandalous night binds Amoret of the Rose to the most dangerous man at court. Wales, 1525. Daughter of a mortal lord and Venus herself, Amoret has always believed love should be abundant—until she is claimed by the enigmatic sorcerer Lord Busirane and taken to Thornhallow Castle, a black-stone fortress deep in the Welsh hills. There, amid secret gardens, blood magic, and rooms that seem to breathe with old enchantments, she is drawn into a marriage as intoxicating as it is perilous. Lord Busirane does not court. He studies. He collects. And in his castle of dark wonders, pleasure and possession blur into something far more sinister. Amoret loses everything: her lover, her freedom, the right to choose what happens to her own body. But she is her mother’s daughter. Venus-blooded. Unbroken. She survives a year of careful cruelty and a love that was never meant to let her go—and escapes. Read more