Cassie Sullivan is a witch in a world where the middle realm is broken into five districts - that of the witches (Mystica), the fae (Fairy), the elves (Ishon Talore), the shifters (Uvrush), and the halfbreeds, those who don't fit anywhere else (Downwind). Working as a cop during the day and a PI at night to pay the bills, she takes on jobs no one else can do - jobs that involve traveling to the lower demon realms. But her life is disrupted when Kit, the kid sister she has sole custody of, starts getting into fights at school.
Usually a good kid, Cassie can't believe Kit would have provoked the fights. But when the reason comes out, their life will have to change. Calling in favors she never thought to use, Cassie emerges from the Downwind sister in tow, for the first time in years. With a new job, house, school, a missing person case dealing with the most prestigious families in the land, and their origin in the Downwind to contend with, these two sisters have an uphill battle before them. Especially when people from Cassie's past run into her at her new job and all her secrets threaten to unravel. Will she step up to meet the task fate sets before her, or run from it once more?
Cursed at birth and bound to shadows, Belladonna Thornweave walks the world as the feared Obsidian Witch. Her golden eyes enchant, her darkness consumes, and her every step blurs the line between savior and destroyer.
Her opposite is Seraphine Dawncaller, a paladin of radiant light and sworn enemy of the abyss. Chosen by the gods, she is everything Belladonna was denied-beloved, blessed, and destined to banish the dark.
When light and shadow collide, kingdoms tremble. But against horrors born from both, even rivals must stand side by side. In their fragile alliance lies hope... and the risk of a bond deeper than destiny itself.
Because the greatest danger is not that they will destroy each other-
but that they might understand one another.
This is an original story written by Charli McDonald and if anyone reads it I would be so grateful