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Synopsis
I never planned to resurrect anything, let alone silence the witness who caught me. One chaotic night later, I'm property of the Resonance Academy, chained to its most lethal Elite as my personal handler. Falcen Reaves is everything my village warned me about. Tall, lethal, and currently rotting from the inside out with the same forbidden magic now squatting inside my chest. He’s got black veins, a soul-eating problem, and the personality of a brick wall that’s personally offended by sunshine. Unfortunately for him, I am 100% sunshine and 200% done taking orders. Then come the blood-soaked trials, where students are fed to Void creatures, and the academy's sadistic Keepers circle closer, sending those who scream the loudest to the catacombs below. And every time my control slips, every time I nearly drain Falcen completely, he wraps his hands around my wrists and asks for more. Close proximity? Check. Forced training sessions that feel suspiciously like foreplay with a blade attached? Double check. A forbidden bond that keeps trying to knot our souls together while the Keepers sharpen their weapons to dissect us both? Chef’s kiss. If we don't figure out how to stop hating each other, the Void will do it for us. And what it wants is so much worse than death. Resonance is a dark romantasy drenched in soul-magic, deadly trials, and a love forged in blood and Void. Perfect for fans of morally gray heroes and heroines who refuse to be broken.
Resonance: content & age rating
Intended for adult readers (18+).
This dark romantasy features graphic violence including death trials and students being fed to monsters, explicit romantic content with multiple intimate scenes, soul-draining magic with body horror elements, and pervasive strong language. The setting involves institutional sadism and captivity.
What to know going in
This book has strong violence, steamy sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include torture, graphic violence, captivity, and death (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Fans of dark fantasy romance will be drawn to the forced-proximity dynamic between a necromancer heroine and her cursed handler, set against deadly magical trials.