They called her cursed. They made her believe it. Then she stopped believing?and started burning.

Selene Vael was marked as a child, her spine branded with a living curse. Locked inside a cloister where the Church hides girls like her, she was taught that pain purifies and desire is sin. She learned to stay quiet. She learned to survive.

But survival is not the same as living.

When a prisoner arrives chained, bloodied, and smiling like he sees through her, Selene's silence begins to crack. His name is Riven, a former Church soldier turned fugitive, and he doesn't flinch when he sees the power writhing beneath her skin. He kneels.

And in that surrender, Selene begins to remember who she was meant to be.

What follows is a rise from ashes: a gothic tale of sex, magic, rebellion, and vengeance. As Selene escapes the walls that bound her, she gathers the broken and the branded, turning scars into sigils and shame into power. But the Church does not fall quietly?and the man who first marked her is waiting, cloaked in mercy and rot.

To end him, and the empire he serves, Selene must do more than fight.

She must claim.

Dark, erotic, and unflinching, Witchmarked is the story of a woman who stops asking for freedom, and instead takes it.