Mae Aisling

An Inheritance of Hunger – Book One in the Series

Hesper has spent her life trying to be careful.
Careful of the curse in her veins.
Careful of the Wardens and their silver swords.
Careful of the thirst that plagues all Nephilim.

Then, a single night collapses a lifetime of vigilance — and leaves a tower full of bodies behind her.

When the Wardens come to drag her north for judgment, Hesper expects cruelty and condemnation. Instead, she finds restraint where she expected hatred—and in Aldric, a dangerous fascination she cannot afford to indulge.

But soon the road bends toward a city she once fled — and toward Cassian, heir to one of the oldest Nephilim houses, and the love she abandoned before it could swallow her. There, among those who know exactly what she is and desire her more for it, Hesper must decide between judgment and surrender.

All she has to do is stop fighting her nature.
But what will be left of her afterward?

For readers who love truly morally grey/black MMCs and FMCs, dangerous and forbidden love interests, love triangles with no clear answer, politics, obsession, devotion, restraint, and romance all tangled with power, captivity, and hunger.