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What the Light Takes: A Spellbinding Fantasy Romance of Shadow Magic, Forbidden Bonds, and Sacrifice
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 14 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A shadow courier survives by one rule: deliver the message, never become part of the story.
Wren has spent her life carrying secrets through a kingdom where light is controlled, dusk is precious, and magic always demands a price. She knows how to outrun danger, evade politics, and keep her heart locked behind iron discipline.
Then a delivery goes wrong.
A single message binds her fate to Kael, a man tied to an ancient power older than the kingdom itself. Their connection should not exist. It should be impossible.
Yet with every passing day, the bond between them grows stronger.
As political factions battle for control and long-buried truths threaten to unravel the foundations of the realm, Wren and Kael discover they are standing at the center of a conspiracy centuries in the making.
To save the kingdom, they may have to break the oldest contract ever written.
But some bargains demand more than magic.
They demand everything.
Filled with slow-burn romance, dangerous secrets, found family, court intrigue, emotional devastation, and a breathtaking magical bond, What the Light Takes is a spellbinding romantasy about sacrifice, hope, and the courage to choose love when the world is determined to take it away.
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