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Ashborne: An Urban Fantasy Adventure
The world belongs to the night—vampires, wolves, and mages carving everything into territories with blood and politics.
Jake Ashborne was supposed to wake up as someone’s new weapon. Someone’s new property.
Instead, the turning fails… and Jake becomes something the supernatural world doesn’t have a name for. He can walk in daylight. He can wield elemental power that shouldn’t exist. And the moment the wrong people realize what he is, every faction in the city starts circling.
Including the ones who want him for reasons far more personal than power.
Two women step into Jake’s orbit and refuse to leave—dangerous, loyal, and hungry in ways that match the darkness he’s trying not to become. As attraction turns into bonds and bonds turn into something like family, Jake discovers the fastest way to lose control isn’t the blood.
It’s the feeling of being wanted… and choosing to want back.
When an elder vampire moves to wipe out the region’s mages and seize Chicago outright, Jake is forced into an uneasy alliance with the Bestows—the ruling mage family—and dragged into a war that doesn’t care who he loves. But the closer Jake gets to winning, the more the city whispers an older word for what he might be… and the more brutal his enemies become.
Because if Jake is real—if the legend is waking—
the night won’t just try to kill him.
It will try to claim everything he’s built.
Ashborne is a dark, action-packed urban fantasy with possessive romance, harem elements, and a ruthless supernatural power struggle in a modern city.
Book 1 of The Ashborne Legacy series.
Jake Ashborne was supposed to wake up as someone’s new weapon. Someone’s new property.
Instead, the turning fails… and Jake becomes something the supernatural world doesn’t have a name for. He can walk in daylight. He can wield elemental power that shouldn’t exist. And the moment the wrong people realize what he is, every faction in the city starts circling.
Including the ones who want him for reasons far more personal than power.
Two women step into Jake’s orbit and refuse to leave—dangerous, loyal, and hungry in ways that match the darkness he’s trying not to become. As attraction turns into bonds and bonds turn into something like family, Jake discovers the fastest way to lose control isn’t the blood.
It’s the feeling of being wanted… and choosing to want back.
When an elder vampire moves to wipe out the region’s mages and seize Chicago outright, Jake is forced into an uneasy alliance with the Bestows—the ruling mage family—and dragged into a war that doesn’t care who he loves. But the closer Jake gets to winning, the more the city whispers an older word for what he might be… and the more brutal his enemies become.
Because if Jake is real—if the legend is waking—
the night won’t just try to kill him.
It will try to claim everything he’s built.
Ashborne is a dark, action-packed urban fantasy with possessive romance, harem elements, and a ruthless supernatural power struggle in a modern city.
Book 1 of The Ashborne Legacy series.
371 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 6, 2026
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August 9, 2025
I made it about 110 pages before I DNF this book. It was boring.
The MC is a guy that is in his third year of grad school, but he doesn't know what his dissertation will be. He's at a bar waiting for his date to show up, with greasy hair of all things. She's hot, but she's clearly not interested in him, and eventually walks away back to her friends, who snicker at him. Then another woman approaches him, leads him out and into an alley, performs oral on him, then takes him back to her apartment. They have sex, she drains his blood, and he starts to turn into a vampire. Then, a few days into the process, she grabs his wrist, and is immolated by some blue fire from him he didn't control. Now he's a vampire that can walk in daylight, and has some sort of magic. And after 110 pages, that's all he and we know.
He spends a lot of time brooding in the apartment he was turned in. Lots of wasted time the reader is forced to go through with him. It's tedious. I get the author is trying to build up a sense of how his life is, but nothing is happening. And when he meets a woman that may be interesting, I was no longer interested in seeing what happens.
The MC is a guy that is in his third year of grad school, but he doesn't know what his dissertation will be. He's at a bar waiting for his date to show up, with greasy hair of all things. She's hot, but she's clearly not interested in him, and eventually walks away back to her friends, who snicker at him. Then another woman approaches him, leads him out and into an alley, performs oral on him, then takes him back to her apartment. They have sex, she drains his blood, and he starts to turn into a vampire. Then, a few days into the process, she grabs his wrist, and is immolated by some blue fire from him he didn't control. Now he's a vampire that can walk in daylight, and has some sort of magic. And after 110 pages, that's all he and we know.
He spends a lot of time brooding in the apartment he was turned in. Lots of wasted time the reader is forced to go through with him. It's tedious. I get the author is trying to build up a sense of how his life is, but nothing is happening. And when he meets a woman that may be interesting, I was no longer interested in seeing what happens.
September 1, 2025
It was entertaining
I like the story for the most part. The MC was a little wimpy in the beginning but kinda turned things around after getting his unearned power. The book is a little boring with the interactions between characters feeling stilted. The MC has no agency and is completely dragged through the plot.
I like the story for the most part. The MC was a little wimpy in the beginning but kinda turned things around after getting his unearned power. The book is a little boring with the interactions between characters feeling stilted. The MC has no agency and is completely dragged through the plot.
September 19, 2025
DNF. Nothing was really explained or made sense. The MC is new to the paranormal world, so I kept expecting that certain important things would eventually be revealed, like the importance of the ash branding on his wrist, or why that makes him a target......yet it never comes. And somehow the MC reacts and takes action based on all this information like he's known all this time.
August 11, 2025
A good first start
I tried this book on a whim as as pleasantly surprised. Hopefully the follow ups will be just as good if not better.
I tried this book on a whim as as pleasantly surprised. Hopefully the follow ups will be just as good if not better.
February 9, 2026
really enjoyed this story and I am looking forward to more of it. Definitely has the ability to go a few more books.
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