Bloodbound Shadow Hunt

The smallest child opens her eyes—and a dead man’s voice crawls from her throat, whispering Cole Ash’s name. Before the drifter mage can cast, Ivy Coe sees the dead man’s final footprints burn across the floor… ending at Cole’s boots. Cole needs the bounty. Ivy needs a trail. Forced west into cursed villages where children never wake and the dead speak through the living, they find the dream-eater has vanished ahead of them every time. But Ivy’s gift is showing her deaths that haven’t happened, while Cole’s magic twists into something neither of them can control—and the farther they go, the more they become each other’s only protection. At the ruined temple, they learn the monster was never running from them—it was leading them to an ancient prison that needs Cole’s blood to open; will he sacrifice himself and unleash what lies within, or betray Ivy to keep the seal intact?