Marrow Alchemist

Mara Morrigan woke in chains with ninety days missing from her mind.The war is over. The rebels are dead. The empire has won. And somewhere beneath the bones of the battlefield lies the Black Heart, a corrupted saint relic powerful enough to wake every soldier in the grave.They say Mara hid it.They say she erased her own memory to keep it lost.Now she has been sent to Blackthorn Hall, a decaying gothic estate ruled by Silas Wren, the empire's most feared death-mage. He wants the truth buried in her marrow. She wants to survive him.But the deeper Silas digs, the more terrifying the truth becomes.Mara's memories were not stolen.She buried them.And whatever she was trying to stop may still be waiting to rise. Dark, gothic, and emotionally devastating, The Marrow Alchemist is a standalone dark fantasy romantasy about saints, relic magic, memory loss, forbidden bone alchemy, war trauma, morally grey characters, and a dangerous slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance where love is not clean, mercy is not simple, and survival has a cost.Perfect for readers who love dark fantasy romance, gothic fantasy, necromantic magic, morally complex heroines, haunted estates, religious horror, forbidden magic, enemies-to-lovers tension, and stories where the dead do not rest quietly.