The Bound Consort
The Veiled Academy · Book One — by A.S. · dark paranormal romance
She hacked the wrong server. Now it’s living in her head.
Rowan Hayes has three rules for staying alive as a hacker. She broke all three before midnight. An itch she couldn’t explain drew her to Sinclair Global — a corporation too clean, run by a CEO no one has ever seen. She went looking for the lie buried in their servers. She found a sub-basement that shouldn’t exist, a name that shouldn’t matter, and teeth. Now she’s Blood-Marked, bound by a forbidden Blood-Link to Dorian Sinclair himself: ancient, untouchable, and suddenly living inside her head. The Sanguine Council calls their bond heresy. The wards of Nightshade Academy call her something else. Little star. They’ve been waiting.
“When the unwilling are bound, twin stars shall rise — one born of the old blood, one marked by it. The thrones of the old shall crack beneath their light. One star to shatter the order, one to save it — or both to burn the sky together.” — the Twin Stars prophecy
Three rules keep me alive: never hack for money you can’t walk away from, never trust a client who pays in crypto and compliments, and never poke a sleeping giant without knowing where its teeth are. I was breaking rule three before midnight.
— from Chapter One of The Bound Consort
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