Where the Rare Bloom Drowns — Ebook (Book 1: The Bound in Bleeding Shade)

A dying world. A forbidden magic. A crown that will stop at nothing to keep the realms in ash.

Twenty-two-year-old Mohana was born with a ghost's grief and the hyper-vigilant mind of a survivor. Reincarnated into the scholarly village of Hastias, she wanted nothing more than to protect the family that gave her a second chance at love. But when a terrifying surge of monstrous Fog Crawlers and Mire-Hounds threatens to tear her home apart, Mohana does the unthinkable: she unlocks the forbidden vaults of runic magic.

She was never supposed to survive the casting.

Instead, the dark, suffocating purple miasma thrives in her veins, shattering the tyrannical Capital's seals and beginning to heal a dying world. To the King and Queen, she is not a savior—she is a dangerous terrorist.

Exiled and hunted, Mohana must flee into the treacherous open ocean aboard a legendary pirate ship, the Tempus Wanderer. Beside her is Caspian—a companion with golden honeycomb eyes who carries his own heavy secrets and a protective storm in his chest. But as an ancient, dark god of the sunken stars rises from the glowing waves to claim her, Mohana realizes her escape was just the beginning.

To find the rare bloom she loves and rewrite a history built on lies, she must tame the static storm inside her soul—or let the shadows drown them all.