Forsaken

My name is Ember.
That's all that was left of me after my family tried to trade my soul for more power.
My familiar is Bael, a demon of the first realm.
A demon whose link isn't fully formed, thanks to my own doubts and fears.
But those were emotions I wasn't supposed to have.
No surprise then that I failed my ascension.

I was innocent once, but I had no future.
So I traded my innocence for a chance at life.
That price was paid in blood.
The blood of the innocent. The blood of my mother.
The blood of the hunters they sent to kill me.

There are monsters in the darkness.
Monsters I never knew of before.
Maybe I was even one of them.
But then again... maybe being a monster wasn't so bad.

Expected from birth to trade her soul for the power of a familiar's bond, Ember is exposed to the dangers of the magical underworld when she rebels against her house and all that she has ever known. Now, exiled and stuck with a bond she never really wanted, Ember is on the run with little choice but to face the truth of the coven that raised her and the evil which lies at its corrupted heart. Will the Hunters sent to find her do so before she can learn of the magic passed down through centuries of a bargain gone horribly wrong?
Or will the Hunters now become the hunted?