The Damned Symphony Trilogy
Romance
Dark
Psychological
She can hear the music of the soul.
And his is a nightmare.
Aeris hears the music no one else can.
As a celestial bard, she can hear the hidden notes of a soul—fractured melodies of fate, fear, and desire. It makes her invaluable as a demon hunter…and dangerously close to losing herself to the darkness she fights.
When her search for her missing mother draws her into the orbit of Kael, a demon whose magic bends reality into waking nightmares, Aeris discovers a truth more unsettling than any monster. Kael is not what he appears to be—not flippant, not careless, and not free. His power is lethal by nature, his touch capable of shattering minds, and his past marked by a tragedy he believes makes him unworthy of connection.
Bound by a blood pact neither fully trusts, Aeris and Kael are forced into uneasy proximity as celestial politics, demonic bargains, and forbidden magic close in around them. Each encounter draws them closer, even as Kael tries to push her away and Aeris struggles with the growing realization that her own magic may be far more dangerous than she was ever told.
As secrets surface and loyalties fracture, Aeris must decide whether she will continue to numb herself to survive—or risk everything to face the truth of who she is, and what she feels.
Because some melodies don’t fade.
They haunt.
The Nightmare's Melody is the first book in The Damned Symphony Trilogy.
The Nightmare’s Melody
The Phantom’s Lament
Some love stories survive only in fragments.
She broke the bond to save him.
It shattered them both.
When Aeris severed her blood pact with Kael, the magic did not simply disappear—it destroyed their minds, erased their memories, and stripped them of their power. Declared unstable and dangerous, Aeris is imprisoned beneath her family’s mansion, while Kael—unrecognized, unnamed, and unseen for who he truly is—is reduced to nothing more than a supernatural assistant.
Until they are both locked inside the same false reality.
Freed in secret by her brother, Aeris is released into a secluded cottage realm used to contain supernaturals deemed unfit for society. There, they are treated like animals, drugged, controlled, and forced to fight for survival. Kael serves as the prison’s doctor and executioner, bound by the very potions he once created—one to nullify power, another to amplify it beyond control.
Assigned as his assistant, Aeris senses something familiar in him she cannot name. Kael recognizes something far more dangerous in her: the ability to influence fate itself. To protect her—and himself—he binds her magic, warning her never to use it.
As fragments of memory resurface and the truth of the prison comes into focus, Aeris begins to remember not just who Kael is to her—but who Calix is not. Yet when the supernaturals are conscripted into the celestial king’s army, now ruled by her own father, choice becomes an illusion once more.
To save Kael from annihilation, Aeris agrees to the one thing that will destroy them both.
Because some loves return quietly.
And some sacrifices echo forever.
The Phantom’s Lament is the second book in The Damned Symphony trilogy.
Celestial vows do not break—they erase.
Celestial marriages are unbreakable.
And she is about to bind herself forever.
With her powers restored and her future publicly decided, Aeris prepares to marry Calix—a union that will seal her fate, secure the celestial throne, and end the war consuming the realms. Once the vows are spoken, there will be no undoing it. No escape. No second choice.
It is the path laid before her.
And the price for keeping Kael alive.
She never completed the bond with him. If she had, she would be incapable of marrying another. That truth haunts her now—a reminder that hesitation once spared her freedom, and may yet destroy her.
When a new celestial arrives at court, Aeris feels the pull immediately. He wears a borrowed face and borrowed light, but something in him feels achingly familiar. Dangerous. Intimate. She does not know his name. She does not know his past. She only knows that being near him awakens a part of herself the heavens have no right to claim.
Kael has learned how to survive by becoming invisible. Using the remnants of his reality-twisting magic, he infiltrates the celestial ranks to protect Aeris from a fate forged in obedience and sacrifice. He knows what her marriage will cost—and what it will erase.
As the truth of her mother’s death resurfaces and the celestial king’s crimes come into focus—selling her mother to the demon king, imprisoning supernaturals, and forcing them to fight the hell realms—Aeris must decide whether she will accept a crown built on suffering, or shatter the system that demands her silence.
Because a requiem is not a surrender.
It is a farewell—to what was demanded, and to what she will no longer give.
The Songbird's Requiem is the second book in The Damned Symphony trilogy.