Vessel of Ashes

Blackwood Series #1

Punishment was never meant to feel like a sentence.

When Katana Blackwood is sent away from everything she knows, she is forced to aid a failing coven struggling against an ancient spirit that refuses to die. Bound by duty and watched by powers she cannot defy, she expects nothing more than another burden to carry.

She doesn't expect Jacob.

He is a werewolf-guarded, instinct-driven, and bound to a world that should have remained separate from hers. The forest answers to him in ways magic cannot, and his presence is a constant reminder that not all battles are fought with spells alone.

Yet in the quiet spaces between rituals and ruin, he becomes something dangerous: a reason to hesitate, to hope, to feel.

But the spirit they hunt does not simply haunt-it waits.

As the line between hunter and vessel begins to blur, Katana is faced with a choice no one else can make. To save the coven, she must offer more than her strength.

She must offer herself.

In a story where love arrives too late and sacrifice is the only language power understands, Katana will learn that some endings are not meant to be survived-only remembered.