Heiress of the Cursed Light: The Makers Series, #1

HEIRESS OF THE CURSED LIGHT

For her entire life, Eva believed her greatest enemy was her own mind.

An orphan living in the misty shadows of London, she spends her days restoring ancient oil paintings in a forgotten museum, and her nights trying to suppress strange visions—mysterious auras surrounding people and objects, and terrifying flashes of ancient fires that no one else can see.

To cope, she always wears gloves.

Not to protect the paintings...

But to protect herself.

Then, on one rainy night, Eva touches a mysterious seventeenth-century painting, and the barrier that has concealed the truth from her for years shatters completely.

She wasn't losing her mind.

She was seeing the truth.

The colors that have haunted her are not hallucinations. They are Aetherial energy. And the power awakening within her is not meant for healing or protection.

It can unravel matter itself—breaking the bonds that hold it together.

Before Eva can comprehend what is happening, she finds herself hunted by shadowy creatures belonging to a hidden world that has existed beneath London for centuries.

And from the darkness emerges Adrian.

Cold. Ruthless. And the commander of the Aetherial Guard.

He knows secrets about Eva's childhood that no stranger should know. He knows the truth behind her mother's disappearance. And he may have been watching her from the shadows for years.

Forced into an uneasy alliance with a man she cannot trust, Eva must descend into abandoned tunnels beneath London and the ancient vaults of a hidden world, where fragments of her past begin to surface...

Along with a terrifying prophecy.

One day, Eva will raise a blade against the very man who protects her.

She has seen the vision.

She has seen Adrian bleeding.

And she has seen herself holding the weapon.

But is the future a fate that cannot be changed?

Or can her power to break connections reach beyond matter itself—to something far more dangerous?

As Eva draws closer to the truth, she discovers that the most dangerous secrets are not buried beneath London's streets.

They are buried in the legacy her mother left behind.

What if Eliana was never merely a victim of the secret Council?

What if the truth Eva has spent her entire life searching for is the very truth someone was willing to destroy to keep hidden?

In a world where trust can be a death sentence, Eva may be the long-awaited heir the Aetherials have feared for centuries.

But there is one final, terrifying truth...

The light within her is not a blessing.

It is a curse.

And the closer Eva comes to discovering who she truly is, the closer the hidden world comes to discovering what she is capable of.

***Heiress of the Cursed Light***is the first book in The Makers Series—a dark romantic fantasy blending ancient magic, hidden worlds, forbidden secrets, a slow-burn romance, and an uneasy alliance beneath the streets of London.

The truth has been waiting for her.

And so has the darkness.