Ruinous Creatures

Ruinous Creatures

Author: Jessi Cole Jackson Listening Length: 10h 59m
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For fans of One Dark Window and T. Kingfisher, comes a standalone romantasy debut about a woman who accidentally awakens the power to siphon magic from two phoenix skulls, binding her fate to a vengeful stranger and forcing them to navigate the devastating cost of their unbreakable bond. In a sanctuary for magical crea...

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Chapter Twenty-Three Adela

My first full day in the temple, Ulric sits down with me at breakfast. It’s early—prayers begin at seven so we have time for whatever assigned tasks the day will bring as well as magic lessons—but I’m used to a keeper’s schedule and so was up with the sun, already full with worries.

“How are you?” He takes a bite of a fruit I’ve never seen before and blinks away his sleep.

“I am…” I stab at whatever decadent egg soufflé thing I was served.

I thought a life in the valley was the only future available to me, and now I’m wearing the gray robes of a novitiate, with a phoenix skull on the table before me in the Temple of the Huntress.