This Wretched Alchemy: Ruinous Fate Saga: Book One

She would rather watch the world burn than trust the man fate has chosen to save it with her.

Seraphine has spent years mastering the forbidden arts of alchemy, building her power brick by brick in a world that wants her silent. The last thing she needs is a partner—especially not *him*. Cael is everything she despises: arrogant, ruthless, and devastatingly effective at dismantling every wall she constructs. He moves through her carefully ordered life like a spark through dry parchment, and she hates him for it.

But an ancient prophecy doesn't negotiate. Two enemies. One catastrophic fate. Zero room for the hatred crackling between them like a live current.

Their mission demands proximity. Proximity demands honesty. And honesty, Seraphine is discovering, is the most dangerous substance she's ever handled.

Cael isn't the villain she built him into. He's something far more terrifying—a man who sees her completely, every jagged edge and buried wound, and refuses to look away. Their arguments still draw blood. Their silences still seethe. But underneath the fury lives something neither of them can name without destroying everything they've promised themselves.

Some transformations are irreversible.

Some feelings, once acknowledged, become their own kind of ruin.

*This Wretched Alchemy* is a scorching fantasy romance for readers who want their love stories to cost something real.