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

The dark did not break; it simply chose to breathe.

For two centuries, the Capital has ruled the thirteen realms with an iron grip, hiding a history of mass genocide behind the lie of peace while the world starves of magic.

In the isolated port of Hastias, Mohana has spent her second life trying to be nothing more than her parents' "special flower." But when a brutal swarm of nightmares breaches the harbor, she is forced to unleash a power locked away for three hundred years: the forbidden, addictive art of runic magic.

Suddenly branded a terrorist by a crown built on ash, Mohana is forced to flee her home on the tide of a magical gale. Alongside Caspian, her fierce protector with honeycomb eyes, she boards the Tempus Wanderer—a legendary pirate ship harboring secrets of its own.

But the open ocean offers no sanctuary. Out in the deep, a thick, mystic fog rolls onto the deck, carrying Nyctos, the towering God of the Sunken Stars. Fueled by his own burning thirst for revenge, the dark deity demands she master the devastating grimoire or be consumed by it.

To survive the open sea and find the rare bloom she loves, Mohana must embrace the terrifying entity whispering in her mind and learn the language of the sky.

Step into a breathtakingly dark world of bleeding magic, monstrous tides, and ancient, star-carved gods. Buy Where the Rare Bloom Drowns and begin the epic journey of The Bound In Bleeding Shade today.