Hollowborn

After three years as a Sanctum Guild apprentice, Ivy Gray finally earns her first field assignment—only to be paired with Cole Ashe, the guild's lowest-ranked night guard and a man rumored to have no soul left. When a soultaker nearly kills her, Cole saves her with forbidden magic, trapping a shard of his soul inside her dreams. Every night, he whispers spells in her dead mother's voice. As Ivy's locket opens and a black bloodmark awakens, she learns the guild's greatest hunt was never about monsters. It was about her mother—and the ancient pact hidden in Ivy's blood. To survive, she must trust the broken hunter haunting her sleep.