Crown of Twilight and Promise

I fell in love with a boy who built me a secret sky and promised he’d never become the monster the world expected him to be.
He lied.

Hakan is shadow-blood — forbidden, dangerous, and the only person who has ever truly seen me. He spent six months restoring a crumbling tower just to give me a sky that belonged to no one but us. He sang to me through shadows. He gave me back my father’s voice.
Then he made a promise with his shadows wrapped around me like a warning.
Now half-bloods are being dragged from their homes in the night. The boy who wept against my skin has signed the orders. The man I love looks at me like I’m a stranger — patient, cold, scrubbed clean of everything I thought was real.
I swore I’d reach him. Pull him back from whatever darkness swallowed him whole.
Instead I’m watching him become the thing he feared most.
Because boys like Hakan don’t just break promises. They break you. And the worst part? Even now — even as he unravels everything — I’d let him.

This is a dark romantasy and first book in the Kingdom of Light trilogy, set in the same universe as the Kingdom of Shadow trilogy.