achildlesscatlady
"You should have let me burn."
"You think nobility exists in the Dark?"
The sun vanished a thousand years ago. Shadows rot the world. And the Tower demands absolute loyalty to survive.
Soralyss was their perfect guard: devout, disciplined, deadly. But for years, she's been hiding a dangerous truth; she's been slipping through the Projection Pools, meeting Cain, a forbidden Dark Wielder erased from scripture. He taught her magic that shouldn't exist. Magic that undoes everything she believed.
When he begs her to meet him in flesh, past the gates, past the law, she doesn't hesitate.
But when she arrives, Cain isn't there.
What explodes from her heartbreak isn't grief. It's raw, forbidden power. The kind they burn you for.
Now the Tower has questions. And the High Balancer, its most ruthless enforcer, is tasked with tearing the answers from her mind. He sees everything.
Every secret. Every lie. Every spell.
He should kill her. Instead, he binds her to him. She's his prisoner. His weapon. His test.
But he has secrets of his own. And Soralyss must decide if he'll be her captor... or her salvation.
Dark magic. Dangerous love. And a world on the brink of unraveling.
Perfect for fans of Throne of Glass, The Atlas Six, and morally gray love interests with too much power and too much to hide.