Nightshade

I have spent my entire life sequestered in a tower in the floating city of Aetherion, where celestial magic flows and my mother keeps the shadows firmly at bay. She swears it’s for my own protection. That darkness is dangerous.

But that doesn’t stop a shadow from finding its way in one night.

Kairos Nightshade breaks in through my window, calls me a bounty, binds my magic, and steals me away to the Undercity. He’s a smuggler. A Duskwalker. Darkness woven into human shape.

And he’s keeping me in a brothel while he figures out how to sell me.

Every criminal in the Undercity is hunting me now. The Duskwalker King wants me for reasons no one will speak aloud, and the man who kidnapped me is starting to look less like my captor and more like my only chance of survival.

He says I’m just a job.

But in the dark, nothing is what it seems.

Least of all him.

Nightshade is a Rapunzel-inspired romantasy with a morally grey kidnapper hero, a sheltered heroine discovering her own power, and a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance that unfolds in the dark.

If you’ve ever rooted for the kidnapper, stayed up until 3am convinced he’d change, and sobbed when he finally did — Nightshade was written for you.