Every killer needs a muse, and she happens to be his.

Jinx Draconis was sentenced to Mors Academy for a string of violent crimes she doesn’t regret.
Her only mistake? Not killing the right person.
Oh, and accidentally getting her magicless younger brother locked up with her.

Now she’s trapped in a brutal cliffside military prison disguised as a school.
Where magic is weaponized, students are wicked.
And each of them is being forged into a killer to fight the plague of monsters destroying their home world.

Jinx doesn’t want redemption. She doesn’t even care about surviving her sentence.
All she wants is revenge, and to protect the only sibling she has left.

And when students start turning up dead—murdered just like her twin sister—Jinx suspects the killer she meant to destroy might be trapped inside with her.

As if she didn’t have enough on her plate, some of the men haunting the halls come with baggage she swore she doesn't feel:
her childhood sweetheart who told her he loved her, then disappeared without a word,
the enemy born of a centuries-old blood feud who would rather bleed than smile,
the masked man who watches her from the shadows and leaves her wanting more,
and the human who would die before she’d even lived a tenth of her life.

The prophecy says shadebounds always fall. That their power twists and breaks until there's nothing left.
But Jinx doesn’t care. If anything, she enjoys the prospect of being evil.
Because if she has to destroy herself to find her sister’s killer,
then she’ll happily drag this whole cursed place down with her.

Shadebound is the first book in a series following Jinx: a grumpy serial killer who has been sentenced to Mors Academy for her crimes. It follows her as she is trained, tortured, and turned into a soldier, so she can help fight against the magical plague that is ruining her homeland. Whilst at Mors, students start to get murdered by the same serial killer who slaughtered her twin. This story is gothic, hilarious, slow burn spicy, and thrilling. It follows Jinx as she seeks revenge, learns the secrets to her power, and deals with multiple emotionally damaged men who want to kill her, or love her (ew, feelings). Expect lots of fun tropes, in this Dark Academia, Enemies To Lovers, Reverse Harem Romance, Fantasy Academy story.

For readers who love Zodiac Academy, Psycho Shifters, the brutal world of Dark Souls, a sprinkle of Helldivers monster slaying, and an FMC with the deadpan darkness of Wednesday Addams.