Evata's Bloodline: 1

Reader note: Evata's Bloodline is an adult dark epic fantasy built around family drama, five POVs, and separate character arcs that converge into one blood-bound fate. It is not a romantasy, though romance develops as a subplot across the series. Book One focuses on the siblings' bond, survival, discrimination, power, obsession, and the cost of staying alive in a world ruled by necromancers and old myths. >Their father is dead. The fortress is overrun. And Rin finds her twin brother in a brothel with his fingers in some woman's mouth. So begins the Sonakh family's exile-three siblings bound by a Blood Oath that means if one dies, they all do. The youngest, Darka, is Light-touched in a world that still treats her kind as livestock. The oath was supposed to protect her. Instead, it made her a leash around her brother's and sister's throats. In the capital, they move into the shop of an artificer who won't let Darka touch him, calls her his nightmare to her face, and still makes coffee for her every morning. Rin discovers her mind can break people-and she likes it. Akim trains to fight the undead. His cursed sword wants him to kill the living instead. Someone in the city is draining the Light-touched of their blood in rituals... Perfect for fans of Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders, R.F. Kuang's The Poppy War, and Mark Lawrence's Red Sister. If you love families that fight as hard for each other as they fight with each other, morally gray characters you can't stop rooting for, and slow-burn romance built on tension rather than tenderness-this is your book. 18+. All characters in this book are adults. The Academy referenced is an institution where adult students pursue careers-necromancers become officers after graduating, while others obtain their professions. This book contains mature themes including violence, discrimination based on magical ability, and scenes of a sensitive nature.

Pagina's: 315, Paperback, Independently published