Wound the Light

When her touch should snuff him out—but doesn’t—the world starts to notice.

Exiled to the Unlit Wastes, Isolde Renn survives as a Woundbearer: a girl blamed for dimming stars and killing lanternlight. Then something crashes from the heavens—Lucien Veyr, a Lightbringer sworn to the Last Ember, broken-winged and burning with a power he was never meant to lose.

Saving him should be impossible. So is the bond that sparks between them: a branded oath, a shared pulse of heat and shadow, a connection the laws of radiant Lysareth call heresy. But as the Hollowing stirs again—shadows that don’t just kill, but hollow worlds from the inside—Isolde and Lucien become a hunted anomaly…and a dangerous hope.

To outrun prophecy, they must cross ruined sanctuaries, corrupted temples, and cities built on beautiful lies, chasing lost Lanterns and buried truths that could either mend the light—or wound it beyond repair.

A dark, lyrical romantasy of forbidden vows, slow-burn tension, and a world where love might be the only fire that doesn’t consume.