Her plan was to seduce the apocalypse.
Unfortunately, the apocalypse learned how to flirt back.

Tess & Ruin by AE McRoberts

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It is not a gift. It is practical.
He says this about the horse. The dog. The quilt outside her door.
Because practical is the only kind of kindness she believes she is allowed to keep, so he learns to lie in her language.
The General's Blind Bride by AE McRoberts
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Everybody loves a morally gray immortal until the terminal heroine is the one running the emotional con.
She is not trying to survive him. She is trying to make him love her enough that her death ruins him.

Tess & Ruin by AE McRoberts

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She is dying and he knows no lullabies. No poems. Nothing soft enough.
So the terrifying general hums soldiers' drinking songs into her ear for three days because every time he stops, she starts slipping.

The General's Blind Bride by AE McRoberts

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She has six months to live and decides acceptance sounds boring.
Her plan: make the immortal responsible for endings fall completely in love with her, then die and leave him holding it forever.
Spite is a plot engine.
Tess & Ruin by AE McRoberts
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She is ordered to spy on her new husband. Her first intelligence report is his BREAKFAST MENU.
Porridge. Ginger. Two cups of tea.
Filed as espionage. Somehow this becomes emotionally devastating later.

The General's Blind Bride by AE McRoberts

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Everybody loves a morally gray immortal until the terminal heroine is the one running the emotional con.
She is not trying to survive him. She is trying to make him love her enough that her death ruins him.

Tess & Ruin by AE McRoberts

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Romance readers will forgive a man for killing forty people but not for missing one tiny act of care.
My general puts a bell on the dog's collar so his blind wife can always find him. He never tells her he did it.

The General's Blind Bride by AE McRoberts

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She has six months to live and decides acceptance sounds boring.
Her plan: make the immortal responsible for endings fall completely in love with her, then die and leave him holding it forever.
Spite is a plot engine.

Tess & Ruin by AE McRoberts

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Unpopular opinion: curing the disabled heroine at the end is not automatically a happy ending. Sometimes it is just the author flinching.
Mine stays blind. She is the reason he survives the last fight.

The General's Blind Bride by AE McRoberts

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Six books. Six lifetimes. ONE happy ending. Not one per book. One TOTAL.
This series looked me in the eye and said "earn it." So I did. Like an idiot. Like a devoted, weeping idiot.

Soulbound Lament by AE McRoberts

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