Ashes of the Useless

They called her useless.Bondless. Incomplete. A failed witch the Council could not use.They were wrong.At thirty-nine, Sylara has survived two failed bonding rituals and years of being treated like a defect in a system built to measure a woman's worth by the magic she can surrender.Her third—and final—chance is Torren.A dangerous Fire warlock whose last bond ended in death.The Council expects his power to overwhelm her. Instead, Torren's fire recognizes something buried beneath Sylara's skin—something ancient, hungry, and never meant to obey.Their attraction is immediate. Their bond should be impossible. And the deeper Sylara falls into Torren's fire, the more she begins to understand that her failures were never weakness.They were evidence.Because the Council hasn't simply been controlling magic.It has been hiding the truth about women like her.And once a discarded witch learns what she really is, even queens have reason to fear what she may become.Ashes of the Useless is Book One of the Coven Heat series, an erotic dark fantasy featuring dangerous magic, scorching chemistry, morally complicated men, mature heroines, and desire rooted in choice rather than obedience.