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The Thirst that Binds

Dark Court Romantasy

Lysa Vael has spent eleven years feeding on other people’s longing. As the Crown’s finest Draught mage, she survives on emotions others can’t contain — grief, ambition, desire — consuming what they overflow and feeling nothing herself. It is a clean life. A controlled one. Until the Crown seals her next assignment in black wax. The target is Caelum Voss — rebel commander, prisoner of the First Spire, and the only person in eleven years to make her forget she was never supposed to feel hunger at all. Three mages went in before her. All three are in the sanitarium now. They are still hearing his voice. Lysa has never failed a drain. But Caelum doesn’t drain. Every attempt she makes turns inward, feeding her own suppressed longing back into her — sharper, louder, more dangerous than anything she has ever taken from another soul. The more she resists, the more unstable her magic becomes. And the more she wants him, the less control she has over what she is becoming. She was sent to consume his secrets. He may be the first person to consume her instead. In a world where desire is power — and power is never free — Lysa must choose between the control that has kept her safe and the one man her hunger cannot touch… …before she becomes something even the Crown cannot contain.

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