In the aftermath of a brutal border war, Diana—once a proud noblewoman and betrothed to a human general—is captured during a failed counter-offensive. Taken as the ultimate war prize, she is dragged into the heart of the Minotaur Labyrinth to be publicly claimed by Gore Horn, the towering, battle-scarred Minotaur Lord whose name means slaughter and whose horns drip with the blood of thousands. What begins as a calculated act of humiliation slowly warps into something far more dangerous: obsession. Gore Horn, who intended only to break the human spirit, finds himself unable to share her, unable to let her go, even as Diana’s body begins to crave the monstrous knot and she was never meant to survive.