I survived being claimed by the Bond.
I should have known survival was only the beginning.

Nathan Newcomb is no longer the dangerous boy I was warned to stay away from. He is my anchor. My weakness. My impossible choice. The one person my body reaches for before my mind can tell it not to.

The Bond between us is no longer a whisper.
It is alive.
It pulls us closer with every touch, every secret, every moment I spend inside the dangerous world Nathan was born to inherit.

His family should frighten me.
They are powerful. Divided. Haunted by bloodlines, enemies, and sins that began long before I knew monsters were real.
But somehow, impossibly, they are becoming mine.

A refuge.
A battlefield.
A home I never meant to need.

And the deeper I’m pulled into the Newcombs’ world, the clearer it becomes that love does not make us safe.
It makes us easier to wound.

Because Nathan’s enemies are not finished.

The Bond is changing me.
His family is claiming me.

And freedom may cost more than I know how to survive.

BRAZEN: Thoughts of a Wicked Mind is Book Two of The Sephlem Trials, a dark paranormal romance and supernatural family saga featuring a possessive fated bond, demon-touched bloodlines, dangerous devotion, found family, grief, sacrifice, and a love story where belonging may cost everything.