She performed forbidden magic to save her future — and summoned something that was never meant to be called.

Alaina Quinn is one failed ritual away from being expelled, confined, and forgotten — the latest embarrassment in a family already marked by shame.

With two days left and nothing left to lose, she does the one thing every witch knows never to do.

She uses blood magic.

What answers isn't a familiar.

It's Richter Noir — silver-eyed, dangerously still, and carrying eleven years of something that was never meant to become her problem.

He's a cat shifter hunted by an ancient, unbound force that crosses between worlds by feeding on incomplete bonds. A force that has now fixed its hunger on her.

The bond forming between them is not what either of them asked for. It's older than the ritual. Deeper than the magic. And the more she tries to understand it, the more certain she becomes that what she accidentally summoned wasn't a stranger at all.

It was the answer to a question she didn't know she was asking.

The problem is that every answer he gives her makes it harder to pretend she isn't asking more.

But the Uninvited is still coming — and the most dangerous thing she's summoned isn't the force hunting them both. It's how much she needs him to stay.

A dark fantasy romance with:
✦ Forbidden blood magic & forced proximity
✦ Slow burn with a brooding cat shifter
✦ Fated bond neither of them chose
✦ Morally grey magic & real consequences
✦ Witty, sarcastic heroine with everything to prove
✦ HEA guaranteed