She absorbed the darkness. Now the darkness belongs to her.

Ianthe Pryce has spent her life preserving the past.

As a gifted archivist in the depths of the Pale Sanctum, she restores ancient memory stones and protects forgotten histories from a world determined to bury them. She prefers dead records to living people—until an ancient shadow-weaver tears through the archives and unleashes a catastrophic wave of magic.

Morwenna Nightfall has spent three centuries as an immortal creature of shadow, feared by kingdoms and hunted by those who would enslave her power. Wounded, cornered, and desperate, she unleashes everything she has.

Ianthe steps into the blast.

Instead of dying, she absorbs it.

And something impossible happens.

A celestial tether binds the mortal archivist to the immortal shadow-weaver, turning them into unwilling fated mates connected by every thought, every wound, every memory—and every devastating surge of desire.

But the bond has a terrible price.

The more Ianthe absorbs Morwenna's ancient magic, the more the immortal's centuries of violence begin bleeding into her mind. Memories that aren't hers replace pieces of her own past. Her humanity starts to fracture. And the woman she was destined to love may be the very woman destroying her.

Hunted by the High Sovereign, pursued by soldiers armed with magic-killing weapons, and trapped by a bond neither woman can escape, Ianthe and Morwenna must flee across a brutal world of forbidden magic, criminal undercities, ancient relics, and deadly shadow.

Because the Devouring Anchor was never meant to create a love story.

It was meant to create a cage.

And if Ianthe cannot learn to control the darkness inside her, the bond will consume them both.

The Shadow She Absorbed is a dark FF fated mates romance filled with forbidden magic, an immortal shadow-weaver, a powerful mortal heroine, soul bonds, forced proximity, dangerous attraction, supernatural suspense, sacrifice, and a hard-won love that refuses to die.

If you crave dark fantasy romance, sapphic paranormal romance, FF fated mates, immortal/mortal romance, powerful women, supernatural bonds, and a love forged through darkness, open the book and enter the shadows.