Abandoned (The Scars Remain Book 1)

When a young mage accidentally destroys a pirate ship with a rogue fireball, the last thing Isaac expects is for the wreckage to be his biggest problem — but the furious, seven-foot hyena brigand who crawls out of it certainly qualifies.

Isaac has one mission: infiltrate the ancient necromancer's fortress hidden inside a colossal skeleton half-buried in the desert and rescue his father before time runs out. It's dangerous, it's desperate, and it absolutely does not involve passengers. Zaria, however, has other ideas. With her ship reduced to splinters and a treasure rumored to lie deep within the necromancer's tomb, she's not asking for permission to tag along — she's making it a condition of Isaac's survival.

Forced together by circumstance and mutual distrust, the unlikely pair must navigate a fortress riddled with lethal traps, ancient machinery that shouldn't still be running, and horrors that suggest the necromancer's power is far greater than either of them anticipated. Every step deeper into the colossus raises the stakes — and the tension between a mage who fights with careful precision and a brigand who fights with magnificent, terrifying force.

Abandoned is a slow-burn romantasy that leans hard into enemies-to-lovers chemistry, lacing its pulse-pounding action with creeping dread and electric banter. Isaac and Zaria are everything the other despises — until they're everything the other needs.

The scars this place leaves behind aren't all physical.