Hunter. Hunted. Hated. Fated. A thousand years ago, the Andanai Empire crushed wild magic when they sundered the skies. Fifteen years ago, they killed my father as an apostate. Now they're after me. For half my life, I've hidden in plain sight after my father's death. I've kept myself safe by following their rules. Never reach for the skies, only alchemy. Regulated magic, controlled and choked of its wildness. But then he found me. With eyes like smoke and the smile of a wolf, Conn charmed me. Courted me for a night. And betrayed me to the empire. I've never knowingly touched wild magic, but now? Now they force me into terrible trials to earn even a chance at a life in service to the empire's twisted whims. No wilders ever survive. And the trials are far from the only danger. In a city where caprice and cruelty rule, as a wilder in the empire's crosshairs, I'm vulnerable. Unprotected. As the right hand of the empire's sadistic Whisperer, Conn's claim on me might keep me safe--but it might cost my heart. I can trust no one except the one person who betrayed me first, and if I want to survive, I have to become what my enemies fear. A sweeping epic fantasy romance, Wilder crafts a world of dangerous magic, near-extinct dragons, enemies to lovers in forced proximity, and broken souls tied together by fate. What Early Readers Say: "This had me gnawing at the bars of my enclosure." -Patreon reader "I should have laid down a tarp before reading that scene." -early reader "Conn is such a good character. I spend my free time thinking about him!" -Patreon reader "I'm loooooooving it! And [that one chapter] is so hot!" -early reader
