Fates That Bind
Briarhollow Book One
Most of Renata Blackthorn’s life has been spent hiding–avoiding her mother’s cruelty, ashamed of her powerful spirit magic, and dreaming of escaping from her childhood home. As the only gray witch in a family of green witches, she’s always been an outsider. But the Blackthorn family curse, which afflicts those born with spirit magic, only makes her feel more isolated.
When a letter arrives from a late great-aunt, Renata inherits the eerie, crumbling Dreaming Willow Inn… Alongside it comes a warning: she’s the only one who can end the madness.
There are many places she has dreamed of running away to, but the inn where the curse started was one she hoped to avoid in every lifetime. Until it becomes a beacon of hope.
Once she steps foot on its grounds, fate stirs. So do the ghosts of her family’s past.
Renata quickly learns how the curse affects more than just her bloodline and its ability to give her everything she’s ever wanted—or take it all away, including her newfound coven and the man she never expected to meet in person, Archer Vexley.
After a decade of only finding him while sleeping, Archer is in Briarhollow with just as many ancestral ties to the Dreaming Willow Inn as she has. Not only that, he’s determined to learn more about the woman from his dreams.
Renata never thought she would meet him in person, or have a coven of her own. Now that she has everything, she won’t let fate rip it away.
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Content Warnings
Below you can find a list of all content warnings for FATES THAT BIND (possible SPOILERS below). While my goal is to write heartfelt and rich stories, I always want to put my readers' wellbeing first. The Briarhollow Series is a gothic, paranormal romance, and touches on heavier themes; such as death, abuse, and more. If you find something that I have not noted or want to know more about one of my books, please don't hesitate to reach out to me.
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Conversations about death and ending one's own life.
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Mentions of physical and emotional abuse by a parent (emotional abuse is briefly shown).
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A main character who struggles with undiagnosed clinical depression.
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Mentions of infidelity (not between the main characters.
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A man character who has hallucinations due to her family's curse.
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Multiple explicit open-door scenes between the main characters. These contain on-page sexual content in graphic detail.
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Multiple deaths are shown on page.