The Scars of War

Lux keeps her head down, pours the drinks, and pretends the city's shadows aren't staring back. The night her first death-wail tears through the air, everything changes. Symbols burn behind her eyes. Violence bends in her path. And two men step out of the dark as if they've been waiting.

Riven Vescari is War wearing a suit and a smile that never reaches his eyes. He rules the city's underbelly with precision and a promise: stand behind him and you survive. Vale is Death in immaculate quiet-observant, relentless, impossible to read. Both are drawn to Lux for reasons she doesn't understand, tied to whispers of a prophecy and a veil thinning between worlds.

As bodies, secrets, and sigils stack around her, Lux has a choice: cling to the life she knows or follow the power clawing its way up her spine. War offers protection and obsession. Death offers truth and the cost of it. Want becomes need. Need becomes something far more dangerous.

The Scars of War is a dark, spicy why-choose fantasy romance with morally gray men, a fierce FMC discovering what she is, and a city ready to devour anyone who underestimates her. Book One in the Of Ruin and Fire series.

Content notes: adult themes, violence, grief, explicit sexual content, and morally dark situations. See author site for detailed CWs.