Daughter of Shades
by JWalterThorne
Female LeadMultiple LoversStrong LeadFantasyRomance
Eve binds souls to her consciousness. They live in her head, a chorus of the dead: Castigan, who'd burn her alive if he could. Arric, who keeps her blood flowing. Rose, a nineteen-year-old who bears Eve's pain so she doesn't have to.
When a Shade runs her through with a blade that should have killed her, something else wakes up instead. Something hungry and ancient. Something that wants to wear her skin.
Now Eve is back at the military academy that expelled her, surrounded by people who want to study her, use her, or put her down. The blade that pierced her heart is missing. The war between necromancers and elementalists is coming to campus. And the thing inside her is getting impatient.
She's not sure she can control it. She's not sure she wants to.
Dark fantasy with soul magic and morally complicated love interests.
Content warnings: violence, explicit sexual content, trauma, morally gray everything.