TS

Azriel had never wanted a mate. For centuries, he had watched others find theirs and considered himself fortunate to have escaped the fate of a mating bond. He didn’t want the vulnerability. Didn’t want the connection. Didn’t want another person capable of reaching the parts of him he’d spent centuries burying. Then he meets Y/N. One look. One heartbeat. And the mating bond snaps into place. Instead of accepting it, Azriel runs. But Y/N isn’t the kind of female who chases someone who walks away. She has her own life, her own power and secrets of her own—and she’s perfectly capable of letting the shadowsinger figure himself out. Because Y/N is far more dangerous than she appears. She possesses an extraordinarily rare form of dark magic, something ancient that she has spent years learning to control. A power that doesn’t behave like ordinary Fae magic. A power that even Azriel’s shadows seem to recognise. And when his shadows begin reaching for her darkness, neither of them can explain why. As Azriel struggles against a bond he never wanted, Y/N is drawn deeper into the Night Court and its chaotic found family, becoming especially close with Nesta, Feyre, Elain, Mor, Cassian and Rhysand. But there is something unusual about the connection between Y/N and Azriel. Something older than the mating bond. Something that their powers seem to understand even when they don’t. Because sometimes, the most dangerous thing isn’t falling in love. It’s discovering that you were never meant to be apart.