She was born from Morgana's bloodline. He was born under a Pendragon curse. Their bond may be the one thing neither darkness nor desire can control.
In the mist-choked fens, Alys has built a life out of caution. Her magic is old, volatile, and tied to a lineage the world remembers with fear. Every sharp emotion risks waking something ancient in her blood, so she keeps herself hidden, useful, and alone.
Then a single uncontrolled burst of power brings Sir Owain Pendragon to her door.
Owain is a knight from a ruined house, a man shaped by duty, shame, and a curse that has eaten through generations of his family. When Alys's magic lashes out and binds them together, neither can walk away without pain. What begins as captivity becomes a dangerous partnership: two wounded heirs forced to share every tremor of fear, every weakness, every unwanted flicker of trust.
But the bond has not gone unnoticed.
Lord Cadeyrn and the Obsidian Hand want what Alys and Owain carry between them. To Cadeyrn, Morgana's inheritance is not a warning-it is a tool. If he can turn Alys's power and Owain's curse into a weapon, the old channels of Avalon may answer again, and the cost will be paid by anyone too weak to resist.
Pursued from the fens to Oakhaven, from Thornmere's shadowed halls to the brutal paths of the Greyglass Peaks, Alys and Owain must uncover the truth behind the tether before others use it to break them. Yet the greatest danger is not only Cadeyrn's ambition. It is the seduction of control itself: the easy promise that fear can be ended if power is only made absolute.
For Alys, survival means facing Morgana's legacy without becoming its echo. For Owain, redemption means learning that a curse can mark a man without defining him. And for them both, love will have to become something stronger than hunger, secrecy, or fate.
A dark Arthurian fantasy romance of cursed bloodlines, dangerous magic, haunted inheritance, and two damaged souls choosing each other without surrendering themselves.