Echoes of a Bleeding Heart

Darius Blackthorne, a promising young sorcerer, should be studying to become one of Erudithia's elite High Mages. Instead, he finds himself torn between ambition and love when he falls for Eliza Lys, a blacksmith's daughter who makes his world of arcane politics feel hollow.

After his dabbling in forbidden magic nearly destroys them both, Darius vows to change, to choose love over power. But when Eliza falls mysteriously ill at their new home of Eldritch Manor, he'll discover that some choices lead only to darkness, and some sacrifices corrupt everything they touch.

A dark fantasy romance about the price of power and the ruins we create trying to save what we love.