The Red Matriarch: A Dark Romantasy Adventure

He swore never to want again. She swore never to let anyone close. Then a dying ruin bound their souls together. Reyka Drax rules the Obsidian Choir with fire in her blood and iron around her heart. When her sixteen-year-old daughter, Tyra, is lured into the sealed Shadowway by Reyka's exiled sister, she enters the breathing ruin alone.There she finds Caul, a broken Grey warrior who came to the darkness intending to die. Reyka offers him a life debt that buys his blade, never her body and never her heart. But the Shadowway has other plans.A desperate spell binds them soul to soul. Pain crosses first. Then memory. Then a desire neither of them can control. To reach Tyra before the ritual is complete, Reyka and Caul must survive the ruin's deadly trials while resisting the bond pulling them closer with every heartbeat.Because Thessaly is turning Tyra into a living vessel for an ancient power chained beneath the world for three thousand years.To save her daughter, Reyka must surrender the control that has kept her alive. To save Reyka, Caul must risk wanting a future he no longer believes he deserves.In the Shadowway, love may be the most dangerous bargain of all. The Red Matriarch is a dark, slow-burning romantasy of forbidden desire, forced proximity, soul bonds, ancient bargains, fierce motherhood, and hard-won trust. Book 1 of the Ardor Romantasy series.