Ruinous Creatures

Author: Jessi Cole Jackson Listening Length: 10h 59m

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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There is a stretch of nothingness that seems both impossibly long and impossibly short. It is welcome. A bright and peaceful absence of… everything. The heavy weight of expectation. The gnawing hunger of want. The ache of failure and fear and hope.

I am free.

I rest inside that nothing, luxuriating in the quiet until I feel a tug deep inside me, under my breastbone, beside my heart or between my lungs. I did not think I believed in souls.

But something inside me is calling me out of the nothing. I follow that tug across what feels like an endless expanse that grows darker and darker.

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