The Fractured Realm Trilogy

Lyra Ashveil hasn't cast a clean spell in years. Her forbidden light magic once scarred an entire village, and the Lightbound Citadel has never let her forget it. Now the council needs the very thing they exiled her for.

A magical surge is unraveling the realm's ley lines, and the only fix anyone can find requires binding Lyra's light to the one power law forbids it from touching: Shade Coven darkness. Her new partner is Kael Duskren, the Shade heir who trusts nothing wearing a Lightbound crest — starting with her.

High Councilor Soren wants them to fail. Half the realm wants them dead. And every time Lyra and Kael cross into the Veiled Forest together, the line between rivals and something else gets harder to hold.

Forced alliances are supposed to end when the crisis does. This one isn't behaving.

Cursed Alliance is Book One of a slow-burn romantasy trilogy — forbidden magic, court treachery, and a bond neither side was built to survive.