A Modern Romantasy
Spells We Sever
She undoes magic. He makes it work. Together, they might break all the rules.
Book One of The Unmaking · Coming soon
She undoes magic. He makes it work. Together, they might break all the rules.
Hazel Vance is the best Sever in the city — the only one who can take apart the magic that holds it together, and the only one reckless enough to do it at the price of her own body. Every unmaking is paid for in skin, and Hazel has been paying alone since she was nine years old.
Maxwell Thorne builds what she unbuilds. He's a CEO with a binding sewn into his own chest, a fortune resting on magic that's coming apart tower by tower — and a secret that wears his face. Something is unmaking the city on a fourteen-week clock, signing his name to every ruin, and he needs the one person alive who can cut it loose: the woman who has built her entire life around never needing anyone.
Seven dying towers. One impossible cost. And a partnership that only works if she finally lets him carry the half of it that would kill her.
Magic has a body count. Falling for him might have a worse one.
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Emerson West writes modern romantasy about competent women, dangerous men, and magic that always costs something. Slow burn, sharp banter, and a price paid in the body.
Spells We Sever is her debut, and the first book of The Unmaking.
Find her on TikTok @emersonwestbooks.