Fractured Wards: The Confluence Saga, Book One

In a world built on keeping witches and wizards apart, Elara Novak is both.For five years at the Convergence, she has earned the same mark on purpose: adequate. Forgettable is how she stays alive.Then the Council pairs her with Cassian Voss.Top of the wizard cohort. Heir to the family her grandmother taught her to walk away from. Charming in a way Elara recognises at once, because it's a performance, and she knows a mask when she sees one.Now the Convergence's ancient wards have developed a heartbeat. The last time Elara felt that, she was nine years old, a building came down around her, and a child was never seen again. This time, the wards are answering her.When they start tearing themselves apart in front of five hundred people, she has three seconds to choose between staying adequate and saving them.She saves them. And Cassian feels exactly what she did.'That's not witch magic, Novak. It's not wizard magic either.'Now the one man she was raised never to trust has seen what she really is. And Arbiter Veris Hale, a man who understands better than anyone alive what hiding looks like, has been watching her since the day the pairings were announced.Adequate isn't going to save her now.Fractured Wards is the first book in The Confluence Saga: a slow-burn, spicy romantasy of forbidden power, feuding families and a bond that defies every faction line.For readers who love: - Enemies to lovers, with feuding families- Forced partners and a slow burn that pays off- Hidden power, and a hero who sees straight through her- Dark academia, high-stakes trials and found family- A villain who is frightening because he is reasonable- Open-door spice- Fourth Wing and A Court of Thorns and RosesIntended for adult readers. Contains explicit sexual content and dark themes; please see the content note at the front of the book.