Twisted Vows

Wren Loughty arrives outside the gates of Blackwood Academy and understands almost at once that she is dead. The magical boarding school sits on the fringes of the afterlife, and she is now held between life and death, bound to study the skills needed to guide lost souls to the Other Side.

Her first assignment pairs her with Augustine Hughes, known across campus as the "Demon of Blackwood." August keeps people at a distance. He has private reasons for getting close to the new girl, and those reasons grow more tangled the more time he spends near her.

This prequel novella takes place eighteen years before Immortal Consequences. It traces how the rivalry between August and Wren begins and how it turns into romance. The setting is gothic and dark, with a heated, tense dynamic between the two leads.

The campus is full of cutthroat students, and Wren and August cross it together as their bond deepens. The question the story turns on is what August's secret will cost them both, since some betrayals cannot be undone.