This week, your hosts discuss King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St. Clair. Isolde de Lara faces a difficult choice: marry Adrian, king of the vampires, allying her kingdom with his and saving her people from certain death, or reject the vampire king’s offer of marriage and start a war between kingdoms. But for Isolde, no sacrifice is too great, even if it means eternally tying herself to a monster that she’s been raised all of her life to fear and to hate. However, life with the vampire king is different from what she anticipated. Each day reveals new secrets that make her question everything she’s ever known, and with new secrets comes an old enemy. **this is an after dark episode, featuring mature themes**