by Keri Lake
First published 2025
Maevyth Bronwick knows the stories about Witch Knell. The villagers call it The Eating Woods because nothing taken ever returns. Only the desperate or the banished venture near the misty forest where sinners go to die. When tragedy strikes, Maevyth finds herself forced beyond the archway of bones into a boundary no mortal has crossed before. She enters Eidolon, a dark realm ruled by Zevander Rydainn, the cursed lord known as The Scorpion. The coldest assassin in all of Aethyria, Zevander would rather feed his troublesome ward to fyredrakes than protect her. But he cannot abandon Maevyth. Her blood holds the power to break his curse and destroy the evil that sleeps in Witch Knell. The magehood hunts her to fulfill an ancient prophecy. As Zevander's obsession with the enchantress grows, his desire threatens to destroy them both.
Genres: romance, paranormal, dark-fantasy, fantasy-romance
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Aethyria, Eidolon, Witch Knell
624 pages · Hardcover · Bloom Books
Content warnings: violence