A Cage of Blood and Light
(2026)(The second book in the Fated, Cursed, and Claimed series)
A novel by N E Henderson
He waited sixteen hundred years to find her again. He'll raze the world before he loses her twice.
Madelyn James is the only human in a pack of wolves. The soft one, the breakable one, the girl everyone swore to protect and no one ever let be brave. She's spent her whole life aching to be something more than ordinary. She's spent all summer aching for something far more dangerous: the cold, beautiful, impossible professor she can't stop wanting, and can't begin to explain why.
Axton Ambrose is the first vampire ever made, and he didn't cross a continent to teach. He came for her. Dragged out of sixteen centuries of darkness by a woman who shouldn't exist. Because once, before a jealous god remade him into a monster and then his own newborn hunger destroyed the only thing he had ever loved, Axton had a wife.
And Maddy is wearing her face.
The same fate that stole her the first time is circling to take her again. This time, Axton refuses to grieve. So he does the only thing a monster knows how to do. He steals her. He chains her at the edge of the world. And he swears that nothing, not the pack hunting her, not the rival who covets her blood, not even the Devil who made him, will ever pry her from his hands.
But Maddy was never as breakable as they believed. And the longer she's caged with her monster, the more she remembers. What she was, what she's becoming, and the terrible, beautiful truth neither of them survived the last time around.
Some loves don't end. They just wait for the next lifetime to finish what they started.
*** This is book 2, after A War of Hearts and Fate. You do not have to read book 1 for enjoy this one. Maddy is a side character in book 1 and Axton comes in at the end of the book.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Madelyn James is the only human in a pack of wolves. The soft one, the breakable one, the girl everyone swore to protect and no one ever let be brave. She's spent her whole life aching to be something more than ordinary. She's spent all summer aching for something far more dangerous: the cold, beautiful, impossible professor she can't stop wanting, and can't begin to explain why.
Axton Ambrose is the first vampire ever made, and he didn't cross a continent to teach. He came for her. Dragged out of sixteen centuries of darkness by a woman who shouldn't exist. Because once, before a jealous god remade him into a monster and then his own newborn hunger destroyed the only thing he had ever loved, Axton had a wife.
And Maddy is wearing her face.
The same fate that stole her the first time is circling to take her again. This time, Axton refuses to grieve. So he does the only thing a monster knows how to do. He steals her. He chains her at the edge of the world. And he swears that nothing, not the pack hunting her, not the rival who covets her blood, not even the Devil who made him, will ever pry her from his hands.
But Maddy was never as breakable as they believed. And the longer she's caged with her monster, the more she remembers. What she was, what she's becoming, and the terrible, beautiful truth neither of them survived the last time around.
Some loves don't end. They just wait for the next lifetime to finish what they started.
*** This is book 2, after A War of Hearts and Fate. You do not have to read book 1 for enjoy this one. Maddy is a side character in book 1 and Axton comes in at the end of the book.
Genre: Paranormal Romance