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MIRRORBOUND
Eiravel thought she was human.
Adopted. Brilliant. Controlled. A university prodigy with a sharp temper, a disciplined body, and a life she built on her own terms. Mirrors have always called to her. Flowers have always followed her. But she never asked why.
On the night she turns twenty, everything breaks.
In a moonlit meadow, Eira performs an impossible act of rebirth and reviving a dying wolf beneath the full moon. Mirrors across the world answer her existence, colliding into a gate to Aethaelor, the hidden fae realm she was never meant to remember.
She refuses to cross.
But refusal is not the same as escape.
Across the Veil, ancient powers awaken. A forbidden gate opens-and closes-by her will alone. Vaelrith, the most feared fae in over ten thousand years, feels it happen. He knows what it means.
Someone like her should not exist.
As Eira struggles to hold onto her human life, secrets unravel around her: a professor who knows too much, a best friend tied closer to her fate than she realizes, and a realm that will not stop hunting what it cannot control.
Rebirth has a cost.
Power always demands balance.
And mirrors never forget what they reflect.
Mirrorbound is a dark fantasy romance filled with fae politics, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers tension, mythic magic, and a heroine who refuses to be claimed by destiny.