A Blaze in the Darkness
(2026)(The second book in the Light and Shadows series)
A novel by Gem L Preston
She survived Noctura's courts.
She started to find her power.
She began to fall for her captors.
And now?
She’s a prisoner in a palace she can’t quite bring herself to hate.
Everyone wants Olwyn for her power.
Her light.
What she represents.
No one has ever wanted her.
Until them.
The vampire king of the East was supposed to be cruel. Calculating. Easy to despise.
But Casius Sovran is none of those things.
He is patient.
Disarming.
Dangerously difficult to hate.
His palace is too beautiful.
His half-sister too kind.
And two weeks into captivity, Olwyn finds herself laughing in a sea cove like she isn’t a prisoner at all.
That’s the problem.
She keeps forgetting.
But peace is fracturing.
Across the realm, old powers are stirring.
Her mother is pulling strings that reach into every corner of the world—
into courts, into kingdoms, into the men Olwyn wants to trust with everything.
And Casius?
He was never just the villain.
Now Olwyn must decide:
Hold onto the fragile peace she fights for…
Or risk everything to save the one man she was never meant to love.
✨ A Blaze in the Darkness is perfect for readers who love:
She started to find her power.
She began to fall for her captors.
And now?
She’s a prisoner in a palace she can’t quite bring herself to hate.
Everyone wants Olwyn for her power.
Her light.
What she represents.
No one has ever wanted her.
Until them.
The vampire king of the East was supposed to be cruel. Calculating. Easy to despise.
But Casius Sovran is none of those things.
He is patient.
Disarming.
Dangerously difficult to hate.
His palace is too beautiful.
His half-sister too kind.
And two weeks into captivity, Olwyn finds herself laughing in a sea cove like she isn’t a prisoner at all.
That’s the problem.
She keeps forgetting.
But peace is fracturing.
Across the realm, old powers are stirring.
Her mother is pulling strings that reach into every corner of the world—
into courts, into kingdoms, into the men Olwyn wants to trust with everything.
And Casius?
He was never just the villain.
Now Olwyn must decide:
Hold onto the fragile peace she fights for…
Or risk everything to save the one man she was never meant to love.
✨ A Blaze in the Darkness is perfect for readers who love:
- enemies to reluctant allies to something more
dark romantasy with emotional tension
morally grey love interests
captivity romance with a twist
found family in dangerous places
high-stakes fantasy with relationship-driven plots
A Blaze in the Darkness is Book Two in the Light and Shadows series—a dark romantasy of divided loyalties, dangerous attraction, and the unsettling truth:
The people who see you most clearly
are rarely the ones you were meant to fall for.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
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