Chapter 1
The bones of the last great war still littered the wasteland—not skeletons of men, but the crystallized remains of magic too powerful for mortal flesh to contain.
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They made her a weapon. She became a wildfire. Leila was trained to kill—an elite assassin with shadow magic in her blood and twin blades at her side. But when she disobeys her final order to spare a child, she becomes the target of the empire she once served. Her escape into the desert should have meant freedom. Instead, it awakens something far more dangerous: ancient magic, burning and alive beneath her skin. Now hunted by a tyrant who craves her power, a secret court that engineered her bloodline, and a scarred mercenary whose touch stirs forbidden desire, Leila must choose between the fate they planned—and the future she’ll carve for herself in blood and flame. The Shadowborne is a scorching dark fantasy romance brimming with knife-edged desire, deadly betrayals, ritual magic, and a heroine who refuses to be controlled.
The bones of the last great war still littered the wasteland—not skeletons of men, but the crystallized remains of magic too powerful for mortal flesh to contain.