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Bound by Smoke and Shadow: A Dark Fantasy of Bound Magic and Forbidden Desire- Book #2
Paperback
Series: The Ash & Shadow Saga
Publisher: Chrissie Rolle
Published: Apr 16 2026
Pages: 508
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.13 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In a world where magic is controlled, suppressed, and feared, power is not something to be wielded freely-it is something to be contained.
Seraphina has spent her life bound by the Circle, her Ash Magic sealed beneath ancient runes etched into her very skin. Locked away in the depths of Obsidian Keep, she is treated as both a threat and a weapon-too dangerous to release, too valuable to destroy. But something within her is changing. The magic she was meant to lose is not fading... it is evolving.
Stronger. Sharper. Hungrier.
Every surge of emotion awakens something new beneath the seals, a power even the Circle does not fully understand.
And then there is Caelum Nightborne-the Enforcer sent to watch her.
Cold. Loyal. Unyielding.
He is the Circle's weapon made flesh, sworn to suppress the very magic Seraphina represents. Yet with every visit, every silent exchange, every moment his storm-grey eyes linger too long on her chains, the line between duty and defiance begins to blur.
Because something binds them both-something neither of them chose.
As the Circle debates whether Seraphina should be destroyed, controlled, or transformed into something far more dangerous, a darker truth begins to surface: her power is not the only thing changing.
And if the seals break... it won't just be magic that is unleashed.
It will be truth.
In a world built on control, rebellion is not always loud. Sometimes, it begins as a whisper beneath the skin.
Bound by Smoke and Shadow is the gripping second installment in The Ash & Shadow Saga, a dark fantasy romance filled with forbidden magic, slow-burn tension, enemies-to-lovers dynamics, and a world where power always demands a price.
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