The Girl Who Bound Nightmares

By Vivienne Ashcroft

She packed her bag the night before the van arrived.
She already knew she was being collected, not invited.

Obsidian Academy does not appear on any map. It occupies
a Scottish castle that human records say burned in 1889.
Students arrive at eighteen when their Shadow Gift activates.
They are told they are being trained.

Wren Calloway arrives with one bag and a clear understanding
that she is the opportunity, not the recipient of one.

Her Shadow Gift is Nightbinding - she can trap any supernatural
creature inside a projection of its own worst fear. The Council
places her in Tier 5 immediately at intake, which they note
with the precision of people confirming something expected.

Kade Ashborne arrives the same day with the same gift.
Identical. In four hundred years of the academy's records,
this has never happened. When their Nightbinding fields touch
in the assessment room, every other student steps back.
The assessor makes a note. Neither Wren nor Kade speaks.
Both of them understand something has happened that requires
addressing.

At 2am, alone in the restricted archive, Wren finds a
four-hundred-year-old record. The instruction at the bottom
reads: destroy them before they understand what they can
do together.

She goes to find Kade.

Book 1 of The Obsidian Academy series - dark supernatural
academy romance for readers who want a heroine who reads
the fine print and a hero who is running out of ways to
pretend he has not already decided. Available on Kindle Unlimited.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H4B68BSC
• ISBN13: 9798180084552
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"