Welcome to the Darkborn world, where fallen warriors rise again... hungry, bound, and craving vengeance.
The saga continues...
One Darkborn finally claims his mate, only to learn she was born to bond with something older than the gods.
Another dragged his mate back from death, and now the dead won't let her go.
Release date to be announced.
✦ THE SERIES STARTS HERE ✦
RUNEMARKED: A DARKBORN PREQUEL
Before the Wolf swore an oath to protect the one woman who would become his undoing…
Before the Defender was bound to a warrior who loathed him…
Before the Shield Breaker and the Huntress were doomed to an eternity of wounds carved too deep to heal…
They were four mortal warriors, renowned throughout the North, standing in the path of an ancient evil they never saw coming.
When a brutal betrayal burns their world to ash, consuming everything they love and bled for, the goddess of death offers the four a bargain no warrior can refuse: power, vengeance, and the promise that death hasn’t stolen everything from them forever.
But immortality comes with a cost far worse than death. When Sylas, Thorne, Lucian, and Arless accept Hel’s bargain, they have no idea what they are becoming—or the hunger they won’t be able to escape.
Best read before Bloodborn.
BLOODBORN: THE DARKBORN #1
Four warriors died in flames.
Darkborn rose from the ashes.
Sylas the Wolf. Thorne the Red. Arless the Huntress. Lucian the Shield Breaker.
Four names carved into legend. Four warriors resurrected by the goddess of death and cursed with immortality. Together, they are the Darkborn—Protectors of the North, bound by blood and an unbreakable bond woven from hunger, pain, and rage.
For years, the Darkborn have held the North. Led by Sylas, they’ve kept the rot from scourging the land and their monstrous hunger contained. But when Sylas rescues the princess of a rival kingdom from an enemy dungeon, the gods deal their cruelest hand yet. Evangeline may be the key to ending the Butcher King’s tyranny, and the goddess of death has tasked the Darkborn with her protection. But the instant Sylas sensed the princess, an obsession awakened inside him that cannot be mastered. And having her is a line he can never cross.
While Arless and Thorne protect the North against the Butcher King's armies, Sylas and Lucian scour the South for answers to save the realm. As Sylas fights his hunger that only sharpens, Lucian discovers the Darkborn aren't the only monsters the gods created.
Soulbound, The Darkborn #2 (Early Release Copy)
*Available for IMMEDIATE download. This is a discounted, website exclusive offer prior to the October 20th Amazon release.
One starving immortal is bound to the mate he refuses to touch. Another would burn the realm down for the one who despises him.
In a war where every death feeds the enemy, the Darkborn are running out of time.
Sylas swore he’d protect Evangeline from war. From Barron. Most of all, from himself.
He has been starving since the day he died, and the princess of Soothlund is the only thing that can end it. But accepting their bond would tether her mortal soul to a destiny she may not survive, and Sylas refuses to bury another woman he loves.
But a Darkborn cannot deny his bonded forever. Evangeline is done being protected.
Across the tundra, Thorne the Defender and Imara, Shield Commander of Ironrest, fortify the Frost Moors for the battle ahead. As the Red Army advances, Imara finds herself trapped between her deep-seated resentment for the Defender and a terrifying connection she can no longer deny. Thorne faces a far more dangerous realization: there is nothing he won’t do to keep Imara safe.
As the rot continues to spread and darkness consumes Nordlund, Lucian races to perfect their only defense against alchemy fire before the enemy burns the land to ash. And as Warden of the North, Arless struggles to hold their fracturing forces together as a traitor works against them from within.
The four warriors who bargained with a goddess to save their realm are about to learn exactly what that bargain costs.
And eternity is a long time to bleed.
Soulbound is the high-stakes continuation of The Darkborn series, perfect for readers who love slow-burn sexual tension, unique vampire lore, shifters, meddling gods, and a found family of protective, feral warriors.
This is not a standalone. Read Runemarked and Bloodborn before release, and download Scarmarked, the free origin story, at the author's website.
✦ READING ORDER ✦
0 RUNEMARKED
1 BLOODBORN
2 SOULBOUND
3 FATESWORN (2027)
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*SCARMARKED
*ASHKEEPER
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MORE ABOUT THE DARKBORN WORLD
Welcome to The Darkborn, where ancient gods stir, monsters wear crowns, and every bargain comes with a price.
When four Viking warriors are betrayed and left to burn, the goddess of death offers them a bargain no mortal should ever accept. Reborn as immortal Darkborn, they must navigate an insatiable hunger, impossible destinies, and an ancient evil threatening to consume Röthgard from the roots up.
With cursed immortals, forbidden love, found family, mythological creatures inspired by Norse legend, and emotionally devastating romance, The Darkborn is an epic Norse-inspired dark fantasy romance series where every victory comes at a cost.
Perfect for readers who love The Witcher, The Road of Bones, morally gray heroes, slow-burn romance, and Viking warriors who bite.
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