The Immortal’s Dawn (The Immortal and the Emperor #2)

She spent 800 years trying not to love. Now she has something else to lose.

Lián has survived eight centuries, seventeen dead emperors, and 645 deaths. She thought she’d finally learned the secret to surviving forever. Never stay. Never belong.

Never give anyone enough of your heart to become a weakness. Then she met Emperor Ren. And everything changed. Now Lián is facing something more terrifying than death itself: motherhood.

For the first time in eight hundred years, Lián is carrying a child. The first life her immortal body has ever created. And the empire is watching. The court has questions. The dragon has opinions.

The cat has already decided the unborn child is an enemy. But somewhere beyond the palace walls, something far older is watching too.

The Hungering King. For a thousand years, he has waited for Lián’s bloodline. Now that bloodline is growing stronger. And there are two of them.

As Lián and Ren attempt to build a life together, the fragile future they’ve fought for begins to attract enemies from every direction. Ancient powers stir. Old secrets rise to the surface.

And Lián is forced to confront the one truth she has spent centuries avoiding:

Immortality was never the thing that made her strong. It was having nothing to lose. Now she has everything to lose.

And she will discover just how far an immortal will go to protect the people she loves. Because staying was never the end of Lián’s story. It was only the beginning.