Hellbound Hearts

Seraphine Katelyn Malvora has spent over three centuries in Hell, mastering the gifts that make her a Devil- and wielding one no creature has ever possessed: the power to command death.

Now she has been sent to Earth with one purpose: infiltrate an academy for gifted elemental students and drag her target to Hell before her eight month time limit runs out.

Posing as an ordinary girl with an impossible elemental gift, Katelyn must survive deadly trials inspired by the horrors of Hell while keeping her true nature hidden.

But her target, Caspian Thornewood, is infuriating, dangerously powerful, and far too charming for her own good- and every moment she spends with him brings her closer to crossing a line she cannot afford to cross.

Yet as fragments of a forgotten past begin to surface, she starts to wonder if fate has been leading her here all along. Because the memories she can't explain may hold the answers she needs- and perhaps the key to what is yet to come.

With time slipping away like sand through an hourglass and her secrets threatening to surface, Katelyn must decide what matters more: completing her mission or saving the one person she was sent to destroy.

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''Bastard.'' The words have barely escaped my mouth before Caspian has turned around and pinned me to the wall of the empty Study Hall.

He leans in close, so close that i can smell his sweet, intoxicating and somehow familiar scent of rainwater and pine.

His lips brush the shell of my ear as he begins to speak, and i have to fight down the urge to shiver at his touch.

''Call me names again, Hellkitten, and see what happens.''

His stubble tickles my cheek as he pulls away, turning without another word and leaving me alone and cold in the quiet room with just my thoughts to keep me company.

Bad idea.