She ran to save her soul. She stayed to save his heart.
A desperate fugitive, magic stolen. A broken legend, hollowed out by loss. The earth-shattering event that brings them together.
After five years of torture disguised as marriage, Gessa clawed her way to freedom. But sanctuary is not safety. Surrounded by recruits barely out of childhood, she is an outcast fighting to prove she isn't broken. She must master the wild magic ripping at her seams and silence the skepticism of the Order, or lose the only chance she has to be truly free.
Instructor Ky lives in the wreckage of his legend, his failure carved into the scars on his leg and the silence in his soul. Once the realm’s greatest courier, he was shattered by a mission that killed his soul-bonded beast—a tragedy born of his own arrogance. Cynical and guarded, he views Gessa as a terrifying echo of the recklessness that cost him everything.
When Gessa’s untamed power rips them from safety and dumps them in the lawless north, there is nowhere left to hide. Stripped of rank and rules, Ky becomes her only shield against the man hunting her, while Gessa becomes the spark that forces Ky to feel again. To survive, they must do the impossible: trust a partner with the power to break them.
An adult romance for fans of Slow Burn, Broken Heroes and Magical Beasts.
