The Elf Captive

"I’ve spent thirteen years on the front line. You think a single elf in snuff cuffs is going to make me crap my pants?”His dismissive sneer should have told me everything.I’m Asha Lopez, arcane soldier. I break enemies for a living. This one won’t bend, and worse, he makes my pulse do things it shouldn’t.Then he starts talking.What he gives me isn’t mission intel. It’s a fuse: secrets about the fifteen-year gate war that could light our world on fire if they ever see daylight. A deep and ugly truth about who I really am.Every thread I pull tightens the noose around his neck. And around mine. Turn in the confession that condemns him, or torch my career, my country’s narrative, and everything I’ve been trained to believe to keep him alive.They taught me how to break prisoners. They never prepared me for the one who’d break me instead. And falling for the enemy? That’s a death sentence.A gritty near-future military urban fantasy with a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance that unfolds across the series. Perfect for fans of Ilona Andrews and Lindsay Buroker who want their fantasy with both heart and teeth.

From the Author I've always loved morally gray worlds. The kind where nobody's fully right, nobody's fully a villain, and everyone's just trying to survive what they were born into. But with The War for Magic, I wanted to try something new. I was pining for an enemies-to-lovers story where the two leads aren't circling each other over a misunderstanding... they're standing on opposite sides of a war neither of them chose.Meet Asha: an arcane soldier in a world under military rule, trained to break prisoners, not fall for them. And the elf she's ordered to interrogate, who was never supposed to make her question everything she's been taught... except he does. This is magic for the messy hearted.I sat down to write the story of Asha and her elf. But the war between four realms had other plans, and six books later, I'm still just chasing them through it. So here is my warm invitation to come get lost with me.