The Siphon's Vow

In a city where magic is life, she was born to steal it.

Elara is a Siphon-a genetic mistake, a parasite, a thief. Born without a core of her own, she survives in the filth of the Lower Ward by draining the excess magic from the Elite to keep her dying sister alive. It's a life of shadows and silence, until the night she steals from the wrong man.

When Elara is caught standing over the body of a murdered High Councilor, she expects execution. Instead, she gets him.

Kaelen Thorne. The King's Blade. The Commander of the Silver Hawks. A man composed of winter steel and icy discipline, he is the city's most efficient killer. He offers Elara a choice that isn't a choice at all: use her unique ability to hunt a necrotic serial killer known as "The Architect," or die.

Leashed to the man who represents everything she hates, Elara is dragged into the glittering, treacherous world of the Citadel. But as they hunt a shadow that threatens to consume the kingdom with "The Rot," the line between prisoner and partner blurs. Kaelen isn't the unfeeling statue she thought he was, and the fire between them burns hotter than the magic she steals.

But the Architect is playing a long game-one that involves ancient rituals, vampiric hunger, and the fall of the King himself. To save her city, Elara will have to do more than just steal power. She'll have to become the monster they always said she was.

A dark romantic fantasy full of enemies-to-lovers tension, high-stakes magic, and a slow-burn romance that could burn the world down.