The Blackglass Bargain

Sera Vale pins Eli Voss to the floor, but the blackglass curse beneath his skin leaps into her arm. One heartbeat later, the officer sent to arrest him is dying from the same fire. Eli was framed for destroying the city’s power tower. Sera was sworn to deliver him to the court. Now their life-linked pact gives them no choice. Eli must repair forbidden magic engines while Sera keeps his curse from consuming him. Every dangerous upgrade makes them stronger, closer, and harder to separate. Behind the pursuit, someone is manipulating Eli’s bloodline, and the court wants his sister as its next living weapon. As the city’s energy core enters a deadly countdown, Eli must choose between clearing his name, saving the woman hunting him, and surrendering to the blackglass fire inside him. If the pact breaks, Sera dies. If it holds, Eli may become the disaster that destroys them all.