Starborn Bound by Laura M. Merrin (Paperback)

Starborn Bound is a fantasy romance about forbidden love and the man bound by oath to protect her at all costs.

Anya never asked to be Starborn. One moment she was living an ordinary life, the next her magic tore through everything she thought she knew, marking her as something rare, volatile, and dangerously powerful. Now her awakening has been felt far beyond her world, and there are those who will stop at nothing to claim what she has become.

Taken from everything familiar, Anya is thrust into a hidden realm of magic, where power is feared, controlled, and never left unchecked. Every lesson, every warning, points to the same truth. Her magic is unstable. And if she cannot learn to control it, she will not survive what is coming.

Assigned to protect her is Jason, a Protector trained to contain dangerous magic at any cost. Disciplined, controlled, and bound by oath, he knows exactly what Anya represents. A risk. A responsibility. A threat if she loses control.

His role is simple. To keep her safe, keep her contained and never cross the line by falling in love. But the more time he spends at her side, the harder that line becomes to hold. Because Anya is not what he expected. And the connection growing between them is against his Oath.

As her power strengthens and the threat against her draws closer, Anya is forced to confront what she is becoming, and what it will cost to survive it.

Because if her magic cannot be controlled, it will not just destroy her.

It could unravel everything.