Title: Built From Ashes
Series: Trust Trilogy, Book Three
Author: Fox Beckman
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: 04/30/2024
Heat Level: 3 – Some Sex
Pairing: M/NB
Length: 129600
Genre: Paranormal, Romance, urban fantasy, interracial, gay, bisexual, nonbinary, time travel, magic, witch, demons, chosen one
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Ravi’s world has shattered. Cayenne’s dark secrets have finally come to light, and a mysterious enemy threatens to dismantle The Trust from within. Haunted by betrayal, Ravi must confront the demons of his past while battling for the future of The Trust, the fate of the world, and his own heart. But can something so broken ever truly be mended?
Built from Ashes
Fox Beckman © 2024
All Rights Reserved
Ravi goes completely still.
He is not an angry person by nature. Fierce, maybe. Protective, certainly. He enjoys the thrill of battle, the successful execution of his hard-won skills, helping people. Rarely is it accompanied by anything like anger.
But here in this little room smelling of sage and old books, he curls his hands tight enough around the edge of the table to make his fingernails go pale. He has to draw a deep, slow breath to cool the white-hot torch of his rage.
Don’t be a child, his aunt had told him when he grilled her about it after the airport, refusing to dignify his accusations, do you imagine that we are above using any means to keep the world safe?
Cayenne could have been lying about their abduction. The torture. Just one more lie to spice up the banquet of falsehoods they kept serving Ravi. But they knew too much for him to discount it entirely, their vengeful fury too genuine.
If it was true, had his mother known? Was this the legacy she had always intended to leave him?
Padme wants to know who sent the urumi to Harry’s door, who’s meddling with The Trust and their family’s legacy, with his birthright, wants to know why Ravi isn’t itching to find the enemies lurking in the shadows.
He’s more concerned with why The Trust has those enemies in the first place. If they deserve them.
Ravi has always been a light sleeper, but now he jolts awake every night, heart pounding and fists white-knuckled.
With a shaky sigh, Ravi rakes a hand through his hair. Graciously, Constance gives him a moment to collect himself, her attention on her cup of tea.
“If you can change any of that, then I wish you well of it, of course.” She picks up the conversation easily, as if Ravi hadn’t just had a small breakdown across from her. “I shall assist if I can. I think you shall be a valiant nephew, and a courageous defender of my niece.”
His ears grow hot. “I, uh. Thanks.”
“Do you want me to read your cards, nephew-to-be?” Constance playfully waggles her eyebrows and takes the cards from Ravi. He hadn’t noticed he’d been absently shuffling them.
“I thought you said they were just psychology.”
Constance’s fingers flutter in a stage magician’s flourish. “Lackaday, sirrah, you do not believe in such things, with all the magic you’ve seen in your life? What about astrology and chakras and such things my customers are always asking about?”
“Hey, my people invented chakras. And we’ve got our own horoscopes, thank you very much, astrology is kind of a big deal over there. But no on both counts. That stuff is…not for me.” Lots of magic is real, Ravi knows from very personal experience. Vampires, lycanthropy, fairies, time travel, energetic fields, portals to other dimensions; sure. But the concept that some star billions of miles away means you get born with a certain personality? He’s got to draw the line somewhere.
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Prone to diving way too deep down research rabbit-holes and absolutely incapable of working without a curated playlist in the background, Fox Beckman lives in the Twin Cities and has far too many irons in the fire. Fox is writer, an artist, an occasional wrangler of kangaroos, a longsword fencer, an archer, a roller of dice, and a forager of mushrooms that aren’t deadly (probably).
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