Ruthless Enemy: A Spicy Fantasy Romance

Eve Sterling has one rule: never trust a dark mage. She's watched these arrogant, power-hungry sorcerers carve the city's south side into their personal battleground, forcing ordinary people to kneel or suffer the consequences. Eve refuses to kneel for anyone—especially not for them.

Levi Arden is everything Eve despises. A metal mage with terrifying power and ruthless ambition, he's clawed his way to dominance over a significant stretch of the lawless south side, and he isn't done yet. With rival dark mages nipping at his heels and the democratic north threatening to reclaim the city entirely, Levi needs allies. What he gets instead is Eve—sharp-tongued, defiant, and absolutely infuriating.

Set in a gritty, magic-soaked urban fantasy world where power is everything and trust is a luxury no one can afford, *Ruthless Enemy* delivers the kind of slow-burn tension that makes turning pages feel involuntary. Marion Blackwood crafts two characters whose hatred for each other crackles like live wire—every confrontation charged with something neither of them wants to name. Eve knows exactly what kind of man Levi is. The problem is, the closer she gets, the harder it becomes to remember why that should matter.

This is dark romantasy at its most compelling: morally complex, undeniably steamy, and utterly impossible to put down. If you love your heroes dangerous and your heroines even more so,