In the third installment of AK Caggiano’s Villains and Virtues series perfect for fans of Sydney J. Shields and Kimberly Lemming, a demon lord and the baroness who’s wormed her way into his heart try to find time to admit their feelings for each other. If only the world would stop ending long enough for them to do so..

Their destinies are irrevocably entangled, but will their bond finally be the realm’s ultimate undoing?

Nothing about Damien Maleficus Bloodthorne’s evil destiny has gone according to plan. The reason? A certain noblewoman who has somehow enmeshed herself in his softening heart.

Now back amongst his peers at Yvlcon, the preeminent congregation of the vilest and most unscrupulous villains, Damien’s moral growth is threatened– and just when he was learning to be a little less evil too. Consequently, Lady Ammalie Avington, Daughter to the Baron of Faebarrow, finds her own virtue in peril when faced with so much temptation, namely in the form of a domineering blood mage she can’t–or doesn’t want–to say no to.

But a burgeoning romance is doused in the coldest of baths when the Grand Order of Dread commands Damien to once again face the swirling vortex of entropy that’s been hunting them across the realm. The coming eclipse points to devastation and destruction, and with prophecy being, well, prophecy, annihilation seems impossible to avoid.

But there’s an entire fortnight before the world is supposed to end, and surely that’s enough time to find some way around it. . . or at the very least to confess one’s devotion before it all burns down around them.