Marked by Blood and Fire

<p><em><strong>Marked by Blood and Fire: Book Two - The Storm Born</strong></em></p><p><strong>by R. F. Dawn</strong></p><p>Love saved them once. Magic may not spare them twice.</p><p>After escaping the Fold's grasp Lilah Brood and Damon Strong flee deep into the northern wilds searching for a place untouched by war or prophecy. Yet peace remains out of reach. Lilah's powers-once bound now awakened-are growing beyond her control stirring the attention of ancient forces that remember her bloodline.</p><p>The forests whisper her name calling her <em>Aelthryn</em>-descendant of those who once kept the balance between light and shadow. But the wild does not welcome her; it tests her. When visions blur with reality and elemental magic surges through her veins Lilah must confront the truth that her awakening is changing the world itself.</p><p>As the Fold's hunters draw near Damon wrestles with his own unraveling time-magic and the fear that fate will tear them apart again. Allies rise from unexpected corners: a seer with fractured sight a guardian of the old world and a shifter bound to the forest's heart. Together they uncover fragments of a prophecy foretelling not just balance but renewal-one that speaks of a <em>child born of fire and dawn.</em></p><p>When Lilah feels the first flicker of life within her she realizes the prophecy's meaning runs deeper than she ever imagined. The world is shifting. The wild remembers. And what it remembers it reclaims.</p>