Books with title Cursed: Shadow Souls

Ten years ago, there was a battle, a curse, and a princess.It sounds like a fairy tale.It isn’t.Still deep in her eversleep, powering the wards of the last fae sanctuary, Vlari has one adversary to fight: time.Time for the folk to gain the weapons they need to fight against the invaders.Each passing day, she’s less likely to awaken. Drusk has ceased to hope she ever will, until something changes at the very core of Tenebris.

When Carthenne Rel first came to Nyaesh, she feared the A’ras. Now she trains with them, struggling to use the magic they teach, and cut off from the shadow blessing within her. Isolated for her differences, she has only a few friends among the other students. When the strange and powerful Master Invar offers to teach her to access the powers warring within her, Carth is isolated even more. As the deadly Reshian attack the city, Carth discovers a secret, one linked to the shadows she must suppress, and the combination of her magic is key to the A'ras survival. She needs to master her abilities as an even more dangerous threat appears, one that changes everything she’s become, and challenges everything she knows about her past.

Dangerous prophecies. Forbidden love. Limitless power. Magic always demands a sacrifice.Tessa Egan is destined to die! When her powers as a witch are awakened, when she is hunted like so many before her. There is one problem: she doesn’t believe in destiny. Fighting for her life, her survival places her on a collision course with a centuries-old conflict between species, a corrupt hierarchy that will do anything to destroy her, and the realization that her past was never what it seemed. Then there’s the prophecy that proclaims she will become the most powerful witch her enemies have ever encountered. The mere promise of such dominance sends legions after her, as she struggles to master her abilities and win a war against forces far more sinister than she.Adding to her already complicated life is a commanding guardian named Alec and his mysterious half-brother, Josh. The Prophecy of the Guardian’s Mark claims “Only a Guardian’s soulmate can see the Guardian’s mark.” Why can she can see both Findlay brothers’ marks? Why is Josh’s the opposite of Alec’s, evoking anguish and fear?As Tessa faces an evil unlike any she could have imagined, she learns the most dangerous lesson of them all … magic always demands a sacrifice.

When Carthenne Rel first came to Nyaesh, she feared the A’ras. Now she trains with them, struggling to use the magic they teach, and cut off from the shadow blessing within her. Isolated for her differences, she has only a few friends among the other students. When the strange and powerful Master Invar offers to teach her to access the powers warring within her, Carth is isolated even more. As the deadly Reshian attack the city, Carth discovers a secret, one linked to the shadows she must suppress, and the combination of her magic is key to the A'ras survival. She needs to master her abilities as an even more dangerous threat appears, one that changes everything she’s become, and challenges everything she knows about her past.

When the world seems set against you, it can feel like you're cursed.After narrowly escaping death, Ava is back at the enclave—on a lockdown imposed by the werewolf convocation. With Kiara in the wind, they want to keep Ava’s special venom from being used to create more hybrids.At least that’s what they tell her.When Dagny, an oracle who sees the future, has a vision of a pack of hybrids murdering countless humans, the convocation plans to kill Ava to keep the event from coming to pass.Ava runs, hoping to escape her fate—but destiny is not easily thwarted. She wants nothing more than to live out her days with her half Jack—her literal soulmate, and the person she loves more than anything. But every step she takes moves her farther from him.Fate has a plan, but it may not be what Ava bargains for.War is coming. Can Ava stop it before it’s too late?

Molly Finch is looking forward to enjoying her last year of high school: spending time with her friends, applying to colleges, maybe getting her first boyfriend. She’s used to generally floating along through life. That is, until a power outage at school traps her and the strange new student, Justin, in a janitor’s closet together. None of this would feel too strange, except that Justin happens to glow in the dark. Now, Molly finds herself entangled in the world of Shadow Souls: humans that were brought back to life by the demon Faraz in order to collect freshly departed souls for his nefarious plans. As much as Molly tries to fight it, she can’t help but be drawn to Justin. But with all the dangers surrounding him and the Shadow World, can they make their love last?

On the run . . .Elena Gilbert's love, the vampire Stefan Salvatore, has been captured and imprisoned by demonic spirits who are wreaking havoc in Fell's Church. While her friends Bonnie and Meredith explore the evil that has taken over their town, Elena goes in search of Stefan.In order to find him, she entrusts her life to Stefan's brother, Damon Salvatore, the handsome but deadly vampire who wants Elena, body and soul. Along with her childhood friend Matt, they set out for the slums of the Dark Dimension, where Stefan is being held captive. It is rumored to be a world where vampires and demons roam free, but humans must live enslaved to their supernatural masters. . . .Elena will stop at nothing to free Stefan. Yet with each passing day the tension between Elena and Damon grows, and she is faced with a terrible decision: Which brother does she really want?Back in Fell's Church, Bonnie and Meredith have made some dire discoveries. They hastily try to follow Elena and warn her—only to be caught up in Elena's most dangerous adventure yet.

When the world seems set against you, it can feel like you're cursed. After narrowly escaping death, Ava is back at the enclave—on a lockdown imposed by the werewolf convocation. With Kiara in the wind, they want to keep Ava’s special venom from being used to create more hybrids. At least that’s what they tell her. When Dagny, an oracle who sees the future, has a vision of a pack of hybrids murdering countless humans, the convocation plans to kill Ava to keep the event from coming to pass. Ava runs, hoping to escape her fate—but destiny is not easily thwarted. She wants nothing more than to live out her days with her half Jack—her literal soulmate, and the person she loves more than anything. But every step she takes moves her farther from him. Fate has a plan, but it may not be what Ava bargains for. War is coming. Can Ava stop it before it’s too late?

After narrowly escaping death, Ava is back at the enclave--on a lockdown imposed by the werewolf convocation. With Kiara in the wind, they want to keep Ava's special venom from being used to create more hybrids. At least that's what they tell her. When Dagny, an oracle who sees the future, has a vision of a pack of hybrids murdering countless humans, the convocation plans to kill Ava to keep the event from coming to pass. Ava runs, hoping to escape her fate--but destiny is not easily thwarted. She wants nothing more than to live out her days with her half Jack--her literal soulmate, and the person she loves more than anything. But every step she takes moves her farther from him. Fate has a plan, but it may not be what Ava bargains for. War is coming. Can Ava stop it before it's too late?