Locked Within and Crave Forbade: The Red Amethyst Saga, Books 1 & 2

Locked Within
All the stories, all the horrors, were true. The haunting tales of demons stalking in the darkness, and the evil awaiting nightfall had all come true. First, came the whispers of the wind. Then, his silhouette. He had always been there, but never had he let her see.

For Maliyah Amethyst and stepsister Nevaeh Wood, the night had begun as any other. But one thing always led to another and another until life as it was known was sent into the whirlwind of a tempest.

And, when Mal thought it could not get any worse, she discovered a forgotten piece of herself that would be her grandest blessing and cruelest curse. Little did she know, a spell cast by a witch-yes, a witch-had toyed with her very mind and fragmented a piece of her past to save her from the unknown. It should have ended there, but the story yet lingered on the Sovereign Soul, the demon locked within.

Crave Forbade
There was another.

She could feel him, though his thoughts were muffled and withdrawn. He had always been in the back of her mind locked in a place she could not reach. But the moment he touched her, the lock was broken. The moment she saw the tattoo painted on his flesh, she knew.

Secrets wrote her story. The beginning: she could not remember. The end: she did not know. The middle: she forged in red amethyst ink. But he knew her beginning. The Sovereign Soul knew everything, and he would not dare exhale the slightest whisper.

It was up to Mal to stand on the edge between what was and what would be. It was up to her to save those she loved and everyone else in between. But who was she fighting? Who was the villain in her story? Was it him, the Sovereign Soul? Or was it someone else, someone the spell would not let her remember?