Snake Eyes and the Warlock's Luck

Avelina, daughter of the Knight Commander of the SunBringer Paladins, has spent her life as a quiet, obedient bookworm, never naming the horror that follows her because her fierce friend Tala has always stood between her and the world.

Ordered onto a train back to Parandor Stronghold, she loses that shield when bandits halt the journey, and Catalysta, the Mad Goddess, remakes her into a warlock.

Paladins hunt Avie into the swamps of Gloomsdale, where Callum—called Cottonmouth, a merciless, bloodthirsty snake outlaw—sees in the woman crashing through the trees the key to a new freedom.

He needs her to take the blame that would otherwise land on him, and he cannot let himself want her.

Power is still strange to Avie, yet there is a dangerous pull in becoming the one person this outlaw would ruin the world to keep.