Welcome to the Darkborn world, where fallen warriors rise again... hungry, bound, and craving vengeance.
✦ READING ORDER ✦
0 RUNEMARKED
1 BLOODBORN
2 SOULBOUND (OCT 20, 2026)
3 FATESWORN (2027)
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*SCARMARKED
*ASHKEEPER
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)
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A Darkborn who denies his bonded doesn't only suffer. He starves.
Sylas swore he'd protect Evangeline from war. From Barron. Most of all, from himself.
But a Darkborn cannot deny his bonded forever.
Every mile between them is another day of starvation.
And Evangeline is done letting him choose for them both.
Not every battle is fought with steel. And not every Darkborn will survive this war unscathed.
The slow burn finally ignites in Soulbound, the next installment in the Darkborn series, releasing October 2026.
This is not a standalone. Read Runemarked and Bloodborn before release, and download Scarmarked, the free origin story, at the author's website.
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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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