Story By Xander J.
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Xander J.

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I have loved reading since I was a kid and my adopted mother forced me to write and so I like to think I became decent at such. I was homeschooled my whole life and moved around a lot, mostly in the southern United States.
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Beneath Blood and Bone
Updated at Apr 26, 2025, 09:09
Three souls bound by blood, desire, and the kind of love that was never meant to survive.Seraphine Mera was never meant to be chosen. She was meant to dig graves in silence, hide the voices clawing through her mind, and keep her curse buried with the dead. But when she tears open a crypt sealed for centuries, she awakens something ancient—something starving.Azrael was once a prince of death, a creature forged in war and sealed away for the world’s protection. Now he’s free, tethered to Seraphine by a resurrection spell that binds their bodies, their pain, and their darkest urges. He’s violent, possessive, and doesn’t know how to love without breaking the thing he wants to keep.Enter Caelen Veyr—fluid in form, maddeningly beautiful, and dangerous in a way Azrael will never be. Caelen weaves secrets and temptation like silk, unafraid to slide between shadow and skin, pushing Seraphine toward a truth she’s spent her life running from.Torn between two impossible bonds—Azrael’s hunger and Caelen’s games—Seraphine’s sanity begins to fracture. The Church wants her dead. The Veil wants her opened. And the magic inside her is no longer content to be quiet.She’s not a savior. She’s not a villain.She’s the girl who woke a god, kissed a lie, and started a war.Beneath Blood and Bone is a dark fantasy romance steeped in obsession, unholy magic, and the kind of heat that leaves scars. For readers who like their love stories bloody, broken, and too tangled to escape
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