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Tainted (The Magni Series #1)
Expected Release Date: June 29, 2026
Genre: Dystopian Romance
Cover Designer: @artscandare
- Friends to lovers
- Forced proximity
- Feral girls doing feral things
- Found family
- Black cat/golden retriever energy
- Female frenemies turned besties
- One bed
- Enemies to lovers
In the Anti-Fallen Party, we trust. To the death and back.
Till freedom come tomorrow. Angels be damned.
Till freedom come today. Angels be ruined.
Welcome to the Resistance.
Nineteen-year-old Max was born cursed by the fallen angels who won the war. One stage away from losing herself to bloodlust, she knows the Resistance is already counting down to the day she becomes too dangerous to keep alive. That’s why, on the eve of her twentieth birthday, Max attempts the only thing that might spare her fate—defect.
Instead, she encounters something believed impossible: a holy angel, one of the good guys, long thought extinct. The encounter stabilizes Max’s curse and abruptly shifts her value within the Resistance. Rather than being executed, Max is given a single chance at survival—go undercover in enemy territory and uncover how the Fallen are locating the Resistance’s units. Failure means death. Success means protecting the one person she cannot live without: Alex, her childhood friend, emotional anchor, and the slow-burn love she’s never allowed herself to claim.
But the territory is a place few return from, and the Fallen have a new king. Ruthless, calculating, and obsessed with eradicating the Resistance, his rise exposes secrets that threaten to upend everything Max believes about her lineage, her curse, and why she’s always been treated as expendable. As alliances fracture and Max’s bond with Alex shifts from a source of strength into a dangerous liability, one truth becomes impossible to ignore: in a world rotting from the inside—where the Resistance is riddled with traitors, the Fallen weaponize lies, and allegiance is never pure—there are no second chances.
One wrong move and everything burns.
Book 1 in the Magni Series, Tainted is perfect for dystopian romance lovers who enjoyed H.M Wolfe’s Daggermouth and TV shows such as Dominion and Fallout.
TRIGGERS:
Torture, sexual harassment (off-page), death of a parent, death of a child.
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