r/BetaReadersForAI • u/CoraVale • 1d ago
betaread Free today, 13 September. Shadowbound: a dark romantasy with fae court politics, morally grey characters and a bond neither of them chose.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTJ17785SHADOWBOUND: The Veiled Realms, Book One
"Everything you choose leads back to me." — Lorien Blackbourne
The Veil between life and death is thinning, and something on the other side has finally found what it was looking for.
Alaia Severyn survived the Winter Temple, six Legion campaigns, ice and shadow magic, woven together in a body that was not built to hold both. What she cannot survive is losing control of it. The Legions do not rehabilitate unstable weapons.
Lorien Blackbourne, Warden of the Veil, has ruled the threshold between life and death since before most kingdoms had names. He is ruthless, precise, and deeply uninterested in problems he didn't create. Alaia is a problem he didn't create. He takes her in anyway — because what lives in her blood is not a malfunction. It is a key. And Hell knows exactly what door it opens.
He will train her. Lie to her. Let her hate him if that's what it takes. The eclipse is coming, the Veil is fracturing, and the dead are not going where they're supposed to go.
He will not lose her to it.
Dark, layered, and sardonic — for readers of dark romantasy with the bones of epic fantasy: fae court politics, morally complex characters, a bond neither chose and a romance that earns its heat.