Forbidden Sanctuary by Layla Kara, 2025 First Edition The Fallen Grace Chronicles. Book One

For 180 years, Seraphina Vex has survived her exile. Cursed by the Celestial Tribunal to walk the mortal realm as a succubus, she feeds on the dark desires of mortal men-a joyless, dangerous ritual that keeps her alive but chips away at her soul. She maintains a fragile peace in the shadows of Savannah, her meticulously controlled existence designed for one purpose: to remain unnoticed by the cosmic powers that cast her out. That peace shatters with the arrival of Kael, an impossibly powerful fallen angel who looks at her with the eyes of a predator and a saint. His magnetic presence is a relic of a past she can't remember and a direct threat to the future she has carefully built. Their connection is immediate, powerful, and a flagrant violation of the sacred laws governing her exile-a crime for which the Tribunal will not hesitate to unmake her completely. Their bond acts as a beacon in the darkness, drawing the unwanted attention of the very powers she has spent centuries avoiding. Suddenly, Sera is no longer a forgotten relic but a target. The Tribunal now watches her with renewed suspicion, while in the infernal depths, a ruthless queen sees Sera not as a daughter, but as a key to a horrifying power that could shatter the fragile peace between realms. Hunted by forces from both sides, Sera is forced to unravel the conspiracy behind her fall from grace, discovering she is an unwitting pawn in a war older than memory. To survive, she must embrace the monstrous parts of herself she has long suppressed and forge her own path. Caught between a bond that could be her damnation and a destiny she never chose, Sera must fight for a sanctuary of her own making, or risk being consumed by the forces that hunt her.