Darkness & the Light

If Game of Thrones and Dracula had a love child raised by ACOTAR — a dark romantasy saga where love can damn as easily as it redeems, desperate deals make monsters, and every crown hides a dark secret. And the road to hell? It’s paved by angels with good intentions.

About DKL

A century after angels forged the Deconian Dagger to drive the Devil from the mortal realm, their victory left behind a curse—a darkness festering in the blood of kings. When King Charles III begins to suffer night terrors of vampiric faces and his kingdom in flames—and his only heir is taken—he sets out on a quest to find the mythical Dark Oracle of Sight to save his kingdom and his son.

But while he rides into the Dark Forest with his men in search of the Oracle, his cousin Kane weaves a coup in the capital. And far away, a young woman named Jocelyn—hidden daughter of the fallen angels—grieves a lost lover, falls into the arms of a werewolf, and strikes a desperate deal with a leprechaun that may damn her soul.

As the cursed, the betrayed, and the forgotten cross paths, the balance between light and darkness shatters. Not all is as it seems.

…In Htrae, salvation always comes at a cost.

About the Author

J. E. McKinley — a Canadian author and counselling hypnotherapist. My work explores the intersection of myth, psychology, and transformation. Through both my clinical and creative work, I craft stories that marry emotional truth with immersive fantasy. Darkness and the Light is my debut novel and the first in a planned series.

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