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Arcane Response Coven #3
Light's Darkness
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Expected 30 Jun 26
Through Magic, United; In Battle, Steadfast; By Coven, Family.
Kaelen Brooks is the Light Mage of ARC, the oldest and most grounded of the team. With healing hands and the power to summon sunlight’s radiance, he’s a steady force his teammates rely on. But years of holding everyone else together have left him carrying a quiet loneliness he rarely acknowledges.
Wes Vega lives in shadow. As a darkness weaver, his powers are as dangerous as his past—a life shaped by abandonment and the constant struggle to control the darkness within. Wes doesn’t trust easily, but Kaelen’s warmth offers something he’s never a safe place to land.
Their connection is as magnetic as it is precarious. When a malevolent force manipulates Wes’s insecurities and stirs mistrust among the ARC mages, their bond is tested. Kaelen must decide if he’s willing to risk his heart and trust in Wes, even as the darkness threatens to tear them apart.
With a world-ending prophecy looming and their team on the brink, Kaelen and Wes’s love may be the key to saving the realm—or its undoing. Can light and darkness find harmony, or will the shadows claim them both?
Trigger This book contains graphic violence, explicit language and mature sexual content. More TWs listed inside.
Kaelen Brooks is the Light Mage of ARC, the oldest and most grounded of the team. With healing hands and the power to summon sunlight’s radiance, he’s a steady force his teammates rely on. But years of holding everyone else together have left him carrying a quiet loneliness he rarely acknowledges.
Wes Vega lives in shadow. As a darkness weaver, his powers are as dangerous as his past—a life shaped by abandonment and the constant struggle to control the darkness within. Wes doesn’t trust easily, but Kaelen’s warmth offers something he’s never a safe place to land.
Their connection is as magnetic as it is precarious. When a malevolent force manipulates Wes’s insecurities and stirs mistrust among the ARC mages, their bond is tested. Kaelen must decide if he’s willing to risk his heart and trust in Wes, even as the darkness threatens to tear them apart.
With a world-ending prophecy looming and their team on the brink, Kaelen and Wes’s love may be the key to saving the realm—or its undoing. Can light and darkness find harmony, or will the shadows claim them both?
Trigger This book contains graphic violence, explicit language and mature sexual content. More TWs listed inside.
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Expected publication June 30, 2026
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About the author
R.J. Benson
11 books19 followersR.J. Benson has been writing paranormal urban fantasy, and fantasy romance since she was a young girl. She studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, graduating with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Game Design and a minor in Creative Writing.
Her childhood was spent among the northern hills in the blue-grass state and some with the huskies up north. For a time, her soul was under contract to the government. But she saw the world through this contract, meeting peoples of many lands and cultures.
Benson enjoys spending her days with her puppers, reading novels and comics or, playing video games. She spends a great deal of time creating original stories or, sometimes, fanfiction just for fun.
She is an avid supporter of the LGBTQI+ and BLM community, striving to promote change, equity and equality for all.
Her childhood was spent among the northern hills in the blue-grass state and some with the huskies up north. For a time, her soul was under contract to the government. But she saw the world through this contract, meeting peoples of many lands and cultures.
Benson enjoys spending her days with her puppers, reading novels and comics or, playing video games. She spends a great deal of time creating original stories or, sometimes, fanfiction just for fun.
She is an avid supporter of the LGBTQI+ and BLM community, striving to promote change, equity and equality for all.
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