Year two at Greyson Academy was supposed to be simpler. Keep her head down. Control the shadows. Survive long enough to understand what she's becoming.
Instead, the darkness learned to think for itself.
Ashley Dawn has spent every moment since September performing ordinary — crushing her living shadows flat, hiding wings that glow like embers, smiling through classes while a detection grid maps every flicker of the darkness that moves without her permission. One ancient vampire wrote his name into her blood. One professor threaded fire through her shadows until desire and training became the same thing — then destroyed his career to make them look at him instead of her.
Both of them would watch the world end before they'd let it touch her.
But the crimson doesn't care about disguises. The binding is cracking. The specialist has crimson residue on her instruments. And the Voice that reshapes minds with a word keeps getting easier to use and harder to justify.
Nine hundred years of women like her. Every one discovered. Every one destroyed. Every one carrying the power to heal a broken world — killed by the people who profit from keeping it shattered.
Three bonds. A prophecy with no third path. The harbinger bridges or the harbinger burns.
She was their death sentence. She might be their only cure.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Instead, the darkness learned to think for itself.
Ashley Dawn has spent every moment since September performing ordinary — crushing her living shadows flat, hiding wings that glow like embers, smiling through classes while a detection grid maps every flicker of the darkness that moves without her permission. One ancient vampire wrote his name into her blood. One professor threaded fire through her shadows until desire and training became the same thing — then destroyed his career to make them look at him instead of her.
Both of them would watch the world end before they'd let it touch her.
But the crimson doesn't care about disguises. The binding is cracking. The specialist has crimson residue on her instruments. And the Voice that reshapes minds with a word keeps getting easier to use and harder to justify.
Nine hundred years of women like her. Every one discovered. Every one destroyed. Every one carrying the power to heal a broken world — killed by the people who profit from keeping it shattered.
Three bonds. A prophecy with no third path. The harbinger bridges or the harbinger burns.
She was their death sentence. She might be their only cure.
Genre: Paranormal Romance