Seraphim's Dagger
In a world where humans and beastfolk share uneasy borders, sixteen-year-old Elara Vey has known only hard labor, cold meals, and the sharp edge of her adoptive parents’ cruelty. Orphaned when a beast attack left her home in ashes, she learned to survive quietly, keeping her head down, her voice low, and her dreams buried deep.
But when a cloaked stranger appears at the forest’s edge and whispers, “You have her eyes,” Elara’s carefully controlled life begins to unravel. Shadows in the woods stir with strange purpose. The wind carries whispers of an ancient weapon, the Seraphim’s Dagger, lost for centuries, forged in blood and light, and bound by fate to a warrior long dead.
As tensions between humans and beastfolk threaten to ignite into war, Elara is drawn into a dangerous hunt for the dagger, one that will reveal truths about her parents’ deaths, the power coiled within her, and the role she is destined to play in a conflict that could shatter the realm.
But fate has a cruel sense of irony.
Among the very people she was taught to fear, Elara crosses paths with him, an exiled beast warrior whispered about in fearful tales, a creature marked by both scars and secrets. Some say he has slain kings. Others claim he is cursed, his soul bound to the dagger’s bloodline. He is dangerous, unpredictable… and mysterious.
Against every warning, and in defiance of every law, Elara begins to feel the pull of something forbidden, an attraction that could ruin them both. Because loving him doesn’t just break the rules of her world…
it may awaken the very darkness they are trying to defeat.