The Shard and The Serpent
(2025)(The first book in the Shard Daughters series)
A novel by Jinapher J Hoffman
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Taken in after the deaths of her mother and sisters, Rayze studies the art of lethal seduction among the criminal empire of The Serpent, a Boss who specializes in human trafficking.
Infiltrating The Serpent's empire one lay at a time, leaving a string of missing persons in her wake, Rayze is the ghost assassin The Serpent and his heir seek to imprison.
A Bond. Threads of Fate tethered between him and Rayze. She is his. She will always be his, and he will have her, no matter how many times she severs their Bond.
With each severing, their Bond sends them into an unrelenting frenzy of lust and madness. When they're forced to remember it all, to know each other and their bond for what it is...
"A woman who makes war with her mouth on mine is a woman I plan to keep."
The Shard and The Serpent is intended for an adult audience with content that may be triggering to some readers. Full warnings are available at the author's website, Wrathos Books. The Shard Daughters series is a series of standalone dark fantasy romance novels, each focusing on a different couple within Jinapher J. Hoffman's #1 best-selling realm of Mirror.
Though The Shard and The Serpent can be read on its own, readers are encouraged to try the completed dark fantasy romance trilogy, Fates of Mirror, first to avoid historical spoilers and recognize cameos. The Shard and The Serpent is part of Jinapher's overarching multiverse of feminine rage, Wrathos.
Genre: Science Fiction
If Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch had a grunge-punk, morally black sibling. Dark Romance meets Dark Fantasy with a strong female lead desperate to avenge her murdered mother and sisters, and an obsessive heir to a criminal empire who will stop at nothing to memorize every inch of her.
In Mirror, crime rules all. Abandoned kingdoms have risen into criminal empires, each specializing in a dark trade, and among a labyrinth of underground tunnels, a secret society of female assassins lurks, their vendettas paid only in blood.THE ANGEL OF SIN
Rayze Angeline is a Shard Daughter, a female assassin and one of the last remaining mortals blessed with Fate's magic.Taken in after the deaths of her mother and sisters, Rayze studies the art of lethal seduction among the criminal empire of The Serpent, a Boss who specializes in human trafficking.
Infiltrating The Serpent's empire one lay at a time, leaving a string of missing persons in her wake, Rayze is the ghost assassin The Serpent and his heir seek to imprison.
THE SNAKE OF MADNESS
Warrick Ivor is The Serpent's heir, but one fateful night in the presence of Rayze leaves him forever changed.A Bond. Threads of Fate tethered between him and Rayze. She is his. She will always be his, and he will have her, no matter how many times she severs their Bond.
With each severing, their Bond sends them into an unrelenting frenzy of lust and madness. When they're forced to remember it all, to know each other and their bond for what it is...
"A woman who makes war with her mouth on mine is a woman I plan to keep."
"He tastes like violence. A lethal potency that will leave me wet and wanting the rest of my days."
“Scream, angel. Scream and let me taste your pleasure.”
"There’s stabbing a man. Then there’s stabbing a man when he comes. One leaves him wanting. The latter leaves him satisfied until the mere seconds of his bitter end."
The Shard and The Serpent is intended for an adult audience with content that may be triggering to some readers. Full warnings are available at the author's website, Wrathos Books. The Shard Daughters series is a series of standalone dark fantasy romance novels, each focusing on a different couple within Jinapher J. Hoffman's #1 best-selling realm of Mirror.
Though The Shard and The Serpent can be read on its own, readers are encouraged to try the completed dark fantasy romance trilogy, Fates of Mirror, first to avoid historical spoilers and recognize cameos. The Shard and The Serpent is part of Jinapher's overarching multiverse of feminine rage, Wrathos.
Genre: Science Fiction