She was chained under the school for a hundred and twenty years. They buried him in the dark right above her. That was their first mistake.
Andrew Banks came to Burgate University, Boston's elite mage academy, for one reason. Two years ago, the man who raised him walked into the tunnels under campus and came back in a pine box.
On orientation night, Andrew puts the Dean's arrogant nephew on the floor in front of every scout in the gallery. Humiliated, the heir and his crew jump Andrew on the way out, throw him through a restricted gate, and bring the tunnel down on his head.
Instead of dying in the rubble, Andrew finds the forgotten stairs at the bottom of the headland and walks into the vault the Seven Dynasties built their school over.
Chained to a red granite altar is Morwen, a six-hundred-year-old royal demoness of the Abyss with curved black horns, molten gold eyes, and a century of scores to settle.
Their blood pact shatters her chains and wakes a forbidden Warlock core in Andrew's chest. Pitch-black hellfire wraps his fists and burns through shields, stone, and the very air in a caster's lungs, while leaving his own people completely untouched.
While the noble houses fight over rankings, Andrew claims a condemned cliffside watchhouse and invokes an old clause of the Charter to register the first Warlock House in Burgate's history. And he isn't building it alone. Morwen is the lethal, horned demoness who walks the campus at his side by day and claims his tower bed at night. Sophia Russell is the silver-blonde frost heiress whose own family cracked her core in the dueling pit and tried to sell her off, until Andrew's Coven Mark welds her power back together stronger than ever. And Leah West is the storm-witch artificer who wraps his fists in volcanic stone, builds his breaching charges, and backs his play against every family in Boston.
They left him in the dark to die. Now the December Grand Trials are coming, the Dean still wears a dead man's watch, and Andrew is coming back down the stairs to take it back.
Hellfire Warlock is a full-length men's urban fantasy academy harem adventure with a pit-fighting brawler who leads from the front with his own two hands, powerful devoted women who each get their own arc, public arena beatdowns, and a house built on a storm-lashed Boston cliff.