Ashen Souls (The Ashen Echoes Duet, #1)

"Because you are mine, Patches. You always have been, and you always will be. In every lifetime, across every world, and in every realm. You don’t understand it yet... but I have all eternity to make sure you do."

Aveline Hart is a 22-year-old literature student, numb to the world, convinced she is incapable of desire.
Until the accident.

Night after night, an ancient demon named Daeren invades her mind.
He is possessive and relentless, speaking to her as if he has known her forever.
Her logic insists he is a hallucination, but her body betrays her.

In the daylight, her mythology professor, Ethan Hale, offers an escape.
Brilliant, controlled, and fiercely protective, he seems like the safe haven she desperately needs.
Trapped between the monster haunting her sleep and the man offering a dangerous salvation, Aveline is forced to question what is real.

She thinks she gets to choose.
She has no idea the choice was never hers to make.

Tropes:

Dark Academia
Soul Bond
Mind Invasion
Touch Her and Die
Shadow Daddy
Love Triangle: Demon vs. Professor
Slow Burn

Ashen Souls is a dark fantasy romance and contains themes, language, and situations that may be triggering or disturbing for some readers.

This book explores dark themes including mind games, emotional manipulation, extreme possessiveness, and stalking. The story also depicts violence, murder, hallucinations, sleep paralysis, and alcohol consumption leading to blackouts.
Additionally, the narrative includes explicit sexual content, dubious consent, somnophilia, sexual harassment/attempted assault, and kink dynamics such as bondage, branding/marking, biting, blood play, breath play, and degradation.