Forsake

By: Drake, Phoenix

"FORSAKE is a highly recommended read. A read to savour. I cannot wait for the next book."
- Gillian O., Goodreads

She is no longer the woman they tried to save.

Yara Fortune is gone. In her place is a woman who captains a pirate fleet through the southern isles of a realm that should not exist. They call her Golden Queen. There's a bounty on her head written in fae gold, and she is the worst enemy the slavers have ever crossed.

A barefoot Irish seamstress dragged through a rift on Samhain night. A healer in plague-blackened Constantinople, branded profana femina and burned for her gift. A wraith stalking boardrooms, slipping serpent venom between the ribs of patriarchs who thought themselves gods. Every silenced woman in every century is hers to remember. Every betrayal is hers to answer.

The men who loved her have come undone.

A jaded billionaire whose blood is no longer human.

A scarred killer with bare hands and no idea what to do with them.

A sun-drunk Viking losing the war with the god inside.

A dark-winged angel stripped of his wings by the goddess he once served. Grounded. Betrayed.

Across the realms, the last remaining goddess pulls the strings. Inside America, a theocratic regime, calling itself Eden, closes around women's bodies. And above them all, the Divine Feminine remembers what was stolen from her.

She will take it back.

Forsake is Book Two of In the Beginning: a multi-life, multi-POV mythopunk epic of past lives, fae thrones, and the rage of every silenced woman. Darker than Book One. Bigger than the world it broke out of.

For readers who came for the spice and stayed for the sovereignty.

Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas's most brutal arcs, Genevieve Gornichec, A.K. Koonce, and any reader who's been waiting for the goddess to stop apologizing.

Tropes:

Past-life reincarnation across centuries
Divine feminine awakening / villain era
Why choose / reverse harem (4 male love interests, separated)
Pirate queen heroine in fae waters
Hidden royalty / fae court intrigue
Dark angel love interest
Norse god / Jormungandr ascending
Multi-POV (heroine, hero, angel, vigilante)
Theocratic dystopia subplot
Brutal cliffhanger, series continues

Reader advisory: explicit on-page content, on-page violence including burning at the stake in past-life sequences, sexual violence as theme, theocratic regime themes, body horror, and a final-page setup that hurts. This book is darker than Genesis.

In the Beginning, Book Two. The reckoning continues.

Also from Phoenix Drake: Jezebel, a standalone dark gothic romantasy. Out now.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FKZTYP34
• ISBN13: 9798988696414
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Phoenix Drake
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"