The threads are cut. The bond isn't.Audrey St. John and her coven pulled Morgana's magic out of her, thread by thread — four of them, anyway. The fifth was too deeply woven to remove without unraveling Audrey herself, so they left it. They told themselves that was victory.
They were wrong.
While Audrey settles into the fragile, hard-won quiet with the five men bound to her — Caius, precise and watchful, cataloguing every flicker of the darkness growing inside her; Henri, steady in the kitchen and everywhere else; Ewan, pushing her shapeshifting until she stops thinking and starts trusting it; Soren, reading futures in runes he won't fully explain; and Gawain, still adjusting to a world where his king walks again — Morgana is watching through the one connection they couldn't sever. Patient. Revising her plans. Waiting for the moment Audrey's primordial darkness finally answers the pull of the void it came from.
Then Arthur crosses back from Avalon with Merlin at his side, and fifteen centuries of history walk straight into the coven's careful new peace. Old loyalties. Older wounds. A king who means well and doesn't know how much has changed.
Audrey has spent her whole life being someone else's instrument. She's done pretending the darkness in her isn't real, done waiting to be saved, and done letting anyone — dead king or undying witch — decide what she becomes.
But in the Whisperwood, something ancient has stopped waiting to be found.
It's started reaching back.
The Coven Bound is the fourth book in the Hollow Hill series, a paranormal academy reverse harem romance. Best enjoyed after Books 1–3.
The next instalment of the epic series has left me in a state of want.
This time, Arthur and Merlin have come through from Avalon, and are here in the fight against Morgana and her ministrations against Audrey. It's fraught with tension but her men have her back, even if something is pulling them apart from the inside.
“I find that saying things I mean strongly in French is a way of giving them more meaning. The English is for you. The French is where the feeling actually lives.”
The relationship she is forming with singular characters in the coven is great, and it gives more depth to the bond that you don't always see in why choose romances.
“You chose well.” “I didn’t choose,” I insisted. “That’s rather the point of fated mates.”
I really love this series and I can't wait to see what LK does with the next book and how they can get to the HEA together.