The Salt Moon Auction of Two Monsters

Werewolf Zahra Qamar poses as an auction dancer to steal a Salt Moon shard containing her brother’s crystallized memory. Vampire sultan Cassian Arvad catches her and forces a bargain: she must identify twelve false relics before dawn while he opens the empire’s hidden emotion vault. They discover the auction is buying enough fear to power an artificial sun that can exterminate both species. To stop it, Zahra and Cassian must surrender the forms of control that made each of them a monster.

A werewolf dancer hunts her brother’s stolen memory at a vampire auction, where the sultan buying her help is secretly building a sun that kills monsters.