Void Kissed

She was raised to feel nothing without permission. He was raised to fight for scraps. They are about to ruin each other.

Bergwynworth Academy is everything Cedric, an orphan from the violent gutter, was never meant to have. A gothic fortress of gossiping gargoyles, shifting doors, and lethal esoteric knowledge, where the Void Kissed are not shaped as students but forged as weapons, bound in service to the Great Houses.

Angharad Von Castahelm has never spared a thought for someone like him. Heir to the most feared immortal bloodline in the academy, she is frost made flesh, a girl so certain of her own superiority that defiance simply does not register. Until Cedric gets in her way.
Now she cannot get him out of her head. And in a world governed by blood and hierarchy, there is no more dangerous place for a seventeen year old boy like him to be.

While Cedric fights to survive and remain unseen, trying to master a magic system that is closer to cosmic horror, Angharad becomes increasingly entangled in thoughts she cannot control. The more she fixates on him, the more it unsettles her, and the deeper her resentment grows.

What follows is a slow burn of unbearable proximity and escalating tension between two people who should never have looked twice at each other. The pressure builds until it inevitably breaks... violently.

This is book one of a trilogy. New chapters every Tuesday. Thank you for taking the time to check out my work.

Cover Art by Louise Goalby - https://www.instagram.com/fleeting_ember