The bond is complete. Now they want to break it.
The Crescent Bond settled into my chest like four heartbeats that aren't mine. I can feel Dorian's cold clarity when he's thinking. Thane's warmth when he looks at me. Emeric's laughter — and the grief underneath it. And Raze's silence, which says more than anyone else's words.
The Elder Council doesn't care that the bond saved my life. They care that it's unprecedented — a Grimborn bonded to all four founding heirs. They want proof it's stable.
Three Validation Trials. Each one designed to break us.
They separate us to see if the bond holds across distance. They tempt us to see if we fracture under pressure. They dig into every fear we've been hiding from each other — and the bond doesn't let us hide.
But the trials aren't the real threat. Someone inside the academy knows about the entity sealed beneath the Undercroft and wants me to open the door. The Covenant of Ash is circling. And the fifth thread pulsing through the bond is leading me to a woman I was told died nineteen years ago.
My mother is alive. She's been imprisoned since the night I was born.
I will get her back. Even if it means learning what I really am — and why every Grimborn before me died screaming.
This book features:
✓ Deepening why choose bonds — she's keeping all four
✓ Forced separation trial with devastating emotional fallout
✓ The demon finally kisses her (you waited — it's worth it)
✓ Blood sharing intimacy with the vampire heir
✓ A mother-daughter revelation that changes everything
✓ Escalating spice with each love interest
✓ Found family tested under pressure
✓ Cliffhanger that will make you one-click Book 3 immediately
Cursed Trials is book two of five in The Nethervane Chronicles. This is a why choose romance — she ends up with all four. Read Dark Enrollment first. Explicit content. HEA guaranteed at series end.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
The Crescent Bond settled into my chest like four heartbeats that aren't mine. I can feel Dorian's cold clarity when he's thinking. Thane's warmth when he looks at me. Emeric's laughter — and the grief underneath it. And Raze's silence, which says more than anyone else's words.
The Elder Council doesn't care that the bond saved my life. They care that it's unprecedented — a Grimborn bonded to all four founding heirs. They want proof it's stable.
Three Validation Trials. Each one designed to break us.
They separate us to see if the bond holds across distance. They tempt us to see if we fracture under pressure. They dig into every fear we've been hiding from each other — and the bond doesn't let us hide.
But the trials aren't the real threat. Someone inside the academy knows about the entity sealed beneath the Undercroft and wants me to open the door. The Covenant of Ash is circling. And the fifth thread pulsing through the bond is leading me to a woman I was told died nineteen years ago.
My mother is alive. She's been imprisoned since the night I was born.
I will get her back. Even if it means learning what I really am — and why every Grimborn before me died screaming.
This book features:
✓ Deepening why choose bonds — she's keeping all four
✓ Forced separation trial with devastating emotional fallout
✓ The demon finally kisses her (you waited — it's worth it)
✓ Blood sharing intimacy with the vampire heir
✓ A mother-daughter revelation that changes everything
✓ Escalating spice with each love interest
✓ Found family tested under pressure
✓ Cliffhanger that will make you one-click Book 3 immediately
Cursed Trials is book two of five in The Nethervane Chronicles. This is a why choose romance — she ends up with all four. Read Dark Enrollment first. Explicit content. HEA guaranteed at series end.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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