𝐈𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. ✞ ✞ ✞ He wanted to use her. She was the mastermind who planned for that all along. ✞ ✞ ✞ Power. Power built them. Power is what will destroy them. From sworn enemies to reluctant allies, there is nothing 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐈𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐯 wouldn't do, nobody she wouldn't use to reach what her mind has been fixated on for years. Revenge. She's inhumane. Emotionless. Messed up in the head-a diagnosed ASPD mind turned into something precise, something dangerous. A machine. The underworld doesn't call her by name. They call her the flame behind the ghost don. The living requiem. Nyx. And when something like her sets her sights on a target? She takes. Uses. Burns everything necessary to get what she wants. And 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐳𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐨 became exactly that. There's nothing the Camorra king hates more than her-the ghost, the flame, the thorn in his side he's been chasing for years. The assassin behind the Russian don he wants nothing more than to take down. The one thing standing between him and full control over New York City. Blaze is forced to do the one thing he would rather die than do: Ally with the enemy. It was supposed to be simple. Temporary. Strategic. But temptation has always been a dangerous game, and Vera has never been the kind to walk away from a game. Especially one she knows she'll win. Because she's always ten steps ahead. She doesn't lose. She calculates. Plans. Decides. And this time, she chose to play.

You want to burn the world so Sebastian could finally be happy. You want a protagonist who is dark, loyal, manipulating, unashamed of sex and power, physically and magically formidable. You enjoy very dirty, sassy banter as much as warm, tender fluff. Sebastian Sallow has always known how to cause trouble and get away with it. Popular, brilliant, and fully aware of both, he becomes truly untouchable in his fifth year when he befriends the new student: an Ancient Magic wielder and the Hero of Hogwarts. Known by the far less flattering nickname Sallow's Shadow, Drina has no boundaries when it comes to helping her best friend, the boy she loves so desperately that, for his sake, she betrays not only others, but at times even herself. Drina is determined, ruthless, and protective. She loves beasts more than people, thinks killing is natural, and explores ways to increase her terrifying power. She uses it mostly to erase poachers and criminals from the Forbidden Forest and protect its inhabitants. But her true goal is simpler and far more dangerous: to become powerful enough that no one can ever harm her family, her so-called pack. Since last year, that pack includes Sebastian Sallow. Yet not everything can be solved by gathering more power. The story follows Drina through her sixth year, as Sebastian struggles to live with what he has done, rebuild what he has broken with Anne and Ominis, and decide what kind of man he wants to become. Drina, meanwhile, faces pure-blood politics, plots to kill her and steal her power, and the consequences of her own increasingly brutal choices. But her most desperate battles are with Sebastian's demons and insecurities, the very things that stand between them and finally being together.