InfiniteSovereign
She didn't come here to be loved. She came here to survive.
Raven Ashwood is thirty-one, widowed, and the last person anyone expected to walk through the gates of Vanguard Cross Academy - the world's most elite all-boys IS institution, carved into a castle on a mist-covered island at the edge of the world.
She came as an instructor. She stayed as America's last hope for a national representative. And she brought her five-year-old daughter, Ember - a half-fox child with mismatched eyes, a fluffy tail, and IS compatibility readings that make the International Sovereign Council lose sleep at night.
The boys weren't supposed to notice her.
They noticed her.
Kaito - Japan's silent blade, who watches her like she's a problem he can't solve and a answer he can't stop searching for. Callum - Britain's sharpest shot, who survived everything except the look on her face when she thinks no one is watching. Axel - Germany's iron wall, who fights her on everything and would burn the academy down before he let anything touch her. Lucien - France's golden boy, who decided she was worth loving on the first day and hasn't reconsidered since.
Four nations. Four agendas. Four men falling for a woman who is still learning how to carry a grief that has her late husband's name on it.
And somewhere beneath the training grounds, the ISC is watching Ember - waiting for the moment the little fox girl becomes something none of them are ready for.
Between Fire and Nations is a slow-burn, multi-POV fantasy romance about love that arrives at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with absolutely no regard for anyone's carefully laid plans.
🦊 Featuring: IS combat tournaments, academy rivals, tender mother-daughter moments, stolen glances across training grounds, five different kinds of heartbreak, and one exhausted mother who keeps winning fights she never asked for.
She walked in with a daughter and a war machine she couldn't control. They never stood a chance