CindrsandAshes
Tamara Emberlin is many things - a brilliant student at Astraeve Arcane Collegium, a part-time bounty hunter, and the kind of girl who never waits for the universe to hand her justice. But when a mission into the abandoned foundry of Morvale leaves her marked by a mysterious tether of living magic, her world fractures into something far stranger - and far more dangerous - than she's ever faced.
The tether hums with a pulse not her own. It whispers with a voice she knows too well.
Ophelia Cael, the ex-girlfriend who once vanished without a trace, has returned to the academy - and somehow, impossibly, she's bound to Tamara through the same forbidden spell that nearly killed them both.
Haunted by shared echoes of memory, hunted by the entity known only as the Hollow Caller, and torn between her old resentment and a bond she can't break, Tamara must uncover who cast the spell that linked their souls - and why.
But the deeper she digs, the more the lines blur between enemy and ally, guilt and love, self and shadow.
With her steady partner Rae at her side, Tamara walks the knife's edge between mercy and fury, between being the hunter and becoming the summoned herself.
Because some names, once called, never stop answering.
And some silences are alive.