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Shadowmarked: A Dark Paranormal Academy Why-Choose Romance
She survived the monster in the woods. Now she’s trapped in an academy full of worse ones.
Astra has spent her life hiding the thing beneath her skin—a hungry shadow that feeds on pain and answers to no one. When a violent attack exposes what she is, she’s taken to Blackthorn Covenant Academy, a brutal institution built to control dangerous magic.
At Blackthorn, Astra is not a student. She is an anomaly. A weapon. A problem powerful men want to claim before she tears the Citadel apart.
Caught inside a ruthless hierarchy of bloodlines, secrets, and punishment, Astra is forced to master the ancient darkness bound to her soul while navigating the three men who pull her in dangerous, very different
Lucien Blackwood — cold, brilliant, and obsessed with control.
Kael Thraex — feral, violent, and drawn to her like a storm to fire.
Silas Thorn — sharp-eyed, secretive, and far too interested in the monster under her skin.
But Blackthorn’s wards are failing. The darkness inside Astra is growing stronger. And the more she learns about what she carries, the clearer it
the academy doesn’t want to save her.
It wants to use her.
Shadowmarked is a dark paranormal academy romance filled with forbidden magic, brutal power games, morally gray love interests, and a heroine learning that survival may mean becoming more dangerous than the monsters hunting her.
Astra has spent her life hiding the thing beneath her skin—a hungry shadow that feeds on pain and answers to no one. When a violent attack exposes what she is, she’s taken to Blackthorn Covenant Academy, a brutal institution built to control dangerous magic.
At Blackthorn, Astra is not a student. She is an anomaly. A weapon. A problem powerful men want to claim before she tears the Citadel apart.
Caught inside a ruthless hierarchy of bloodlines, secrets, and punishment, Astra is forced to master the ancient darkness bound to her soul while navigating the three men who pull her in dangerous, very different
Lucien Blackwood — cold, brilliant, and obsessed with control.
Kael Thraex — feral, violent, and drawn to her like a storm to fire.
Silas Thorn — sharp-eyed, secretive, and far too interested in the monster under her skin.
But Blackthorn’s wards are failing. The darkness inside Astra is growing stronger. And the more she learns about what she carries, the clearer it
the academy doesn’t want to save her.
It wants to use her.
Shadowmarked is a dark paranormal academy romance filled with forbidden magic, brutal power games, morally gray love interests, and a heroine learning that survival may mean becoming more dangerous than the monsters hunting her.
310 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 11, 2026
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