When Shadows Learn to Heal part 1 Book One of The Vhalraven Doors Erendiel Vale was supposed to be ordinary. A farmer's daughter. A market girl. A healer with dirt beneath her nails, sharp words on her tongue, and no future beyond the safe little valley where her family has been hiding for fourteen years. But Eren's family is not ordinary. They are Vhalraven, the last remnants of a bloodline history remembers as cursed, monstrous, and bound to the darkest magic in Elarionth. Eren was raised to hide her power, her name, and the shadow creature that sleeps beneath her feet. Then Princess Alisandre of Norwanya is carried bleeding to Eren's door, poisoned by Blackroot and hunted by the armies of Dravaryn. Saving her should be impossible. Saving her should be dangerous. Eren does it anyway. Now the road has learned her name. Forced to join a desperate royal escort traveling toward the neutral summit of Asterhavn, Eren must hide what she is while protecting a spoiled princess, surviving assassins, and resisting the impossible gentleness of Nemiel, an ancient Elarai elf whose calm eyes see far too much. But Dravaryn's war is not only for kingdoms. Something beneath the world is waking. The Twenty-Four Circles are stirring. Old doors are beginning to open. And the bloodline everyone feared may be the only thing that can keep Elarionth from falling into darkness. A sharp-tongued dark healer. A gentle elf with a deadly bow. A shadow demon named Buddy who says "HI." And a road hungry enough to eat them all. Content Warnings: Dark romantasy themes, violence, blood, kidnapping, captivity, torture references, executions, emotional manipulation, power imbalance, sexual harassment, attempted sexual assault, trauma responses, grief, possessive behavior, and mature romantic/sexual content.

**Her father was murdered. Her magic is becoming dangerous. And an ancient prophecy says she'll either save the world-or destroy it.** Nineteen-year-old Aurora Jacobs has spent her entire life hiding what she is. A witch. But when a secretive cult known as the Crimson Altar murders her father, Aurora and her brother are forced to flee to a quiet college town, seeking refuge in the home of Conrad Grey-a skeptical detective who has no idea that magic exists. Aurora wants nothing more than to disappear. To make friends. To experience the ordinary life she's never had. Unfortunately, fate has other plans. Because Aurora isn't just another witch. She's the Tethered Flame. And somewhere in the shadows, people are waiting for her power to awaken. As unexplained deaths plague the town, secrets begin to unravel, and an infuriating detective gets a little too close to the truth, Aurora must decide who she can trust. **The prophecy promises two possibilities:** *She will burn the world or bind it.* But prophecies have a way of leaving out the most important details. **A dark fantasy mystery featuring witchcraft, deadly secrets, found friendships, sibling bonds, and an extremely slow-burn romance.**