She can see every bond in the kingdom. She's spent twelve years making sure none of them are hers.
Lady Brena has spent twenty years learning the threads that connect people—gold for love, crimson for passion, yellow for fear. She knows how bonds form, how they change, and how badly they can hurt.
She's had no desire to learn that lesson twice.
Then Eryx Blackthorn arrives from the North, a land the Pure Council burned seven years ago. He's a shadow mage, a survivor, and like Brena, completely untouched by the bonds around him.
Until they meet.
When a routine ward renewal goes wrong, a strange dark thread forms between them. Brena has never seen anything like it. It won't break. It won't obey her magic. And the harder she tries to tear it apart, the tighter it becomes.
Eryx doesn't trust easily. Brena doesn't trust at all. Neither of them wants a connection, especially not one they can't control.
But the castle wards are failing, shadow magic was supposed to be gone, and whatever is happening inside the castle seems to have started long before Eryx arrived.
Now Brena has to work with the one man she can't keep at a distance and figure out why their magic chose each other when neither of them would have chosen a bond at all.
The Bonds We Make is a slow-burn fantasy romance novelette of magic, mystery, and two people who never intended to need anyone.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Lady Brena has spent twenty years learning the threads that connect people—gold for love, crimson for passion, yellow for fear. She knows how bonds form, how they change, and how badly they can hurt.
She's had no desire to learn that lesson twice.
Then Eryx Blackthorn arrives from the North, a land the Pure Council burned seven years ago. He's a shadow mage, a survivor, and like Brena, completely untouched by the bonds around him.
Until they meet.
When a routine ward renewal goes wrong, a strange dark thread forms between them. Brena has never seen anything like it. It won't break. It won't obey her magic. And the harder she tries to tear it apart, the tighter it becomes.
Eryx doesn't trust easily. Brena doesn't trust at all. Neither of them wants a connection, especially not one they can't control.
But the castle wards are failing, shadow magic was supposed to be gone, and whatever is happening inside the castle seems to have started long before Eryx arrived.
Now Brena has to work with the one man she can't keep at a distance and figure out why their magic chose each other when neither of them would have chosen a bond at all.
The Bonds We Make is a slow-burn fantasy romance novelette of magic, mystery, and two people who never intended to need anyone.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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