I died for Nathan Newcomb before I understood what he was.
When I woke, my heart was no longer mine.

The Bond is older than monsters. Older than bloodlines. Older than the stories we tell ourselves to feel safe.

I was supposed to graduate, choose a future, and leave my small town behind.

The Bond did not care.

It does not ask who you planned to become.

It chooses.

It claims.

And it chose me for Nathan—a boy with darkness in his veins, enemies circling his family, and power terrifying enough to frighten the people who love him.

He is Burdened, a demon-tainted Sephlem who insists being near him is dangerous. He says I should stay away.

But the Bond already decided.

It pulls me toward him with every breath. It punishes distance. It rewards surrender. It whispers his name through my body until wanting him feels like survival.

The closer I get, the less I belong only to myself.

And the more I uncover about Nathan’s world, the clearer one truth becomes:

If his enemies cannot destroy him, they will use me to break him.

Because I am his.

And somehow, impossibly, he is mine.

But the Bond is not the only thing inside me waking up.

PLIGHT: Call of the Burning Feather is Book One of The Sephlem Trials, a dark paranormal romance and supernatural family saga featuring a possessive fated bond, demon-touched bloodlines, dangerous devotion, found family, and a love story where belonging may cost everything.