Augustine

TWO SISTERS SOUGHT TO RESURRECT AN ANCIENT EVIL.

ONLY ONE SURVIVED.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER-reeling from her mother's death, and heavy with guilt-Raewyn Winters flees to a quiet English village on the edge of Dolen Forest. She needs time to think, a place to hide from the darkness that haunts her dreams and sets her blood on fire.

But the forest harbours secrets of its own.

And the forest remembers.

When Rae meets John, the brooding gardener from the Gothic mansion on the hill, she begins to suspect her arrival in Cranston Myre was no accident. John bears the same strange birthmark as Rae-and their connection runs deeper than either of them understands. But is John her salvation-or her undoing?

As Rae digs deeper, and the boundary between past and present begins to blur, she uncovers a truth more terrifying than she ever imagined: a legacy of ancient magic, betrayal, and sacrifice woven into the threads of time.

If Rae is to survive the shadows of Dolen Forest, she must confront the truth of who she is-or risk losing everyone she cares about to a destiny written in blood.

The haunting first book of The Knights of Aster-a dark fantasy series with a gothic twist set within The Animus Mundi Legacy-Augustine is a brooding tale of ancestral secrets, creeping magic, and the cost of becoming who you were born to be.