Wings Born in Ruin // 01.02.2027
She went to Darmanesh to die. The gods had other plans.
When the plague takes everything she loved, Sazarah, a vigilante hiding forbidden magic she turns on the minds of criminals, walks into the deadly Kurdalan tunnel expecting never to walk out.
She survives and arrives in a city that has been under a magical mist for 300 years.
Imprisoned in the gilded city of Darmanesh, she’s thrown into brutal trials built to cull the weak, alongside Zayesh, a soldier with too many secrets and a restraint that won’t bend, and Navid, a sarcastic healer carrying his own grief. But the deeper Sazarah goes, the clearer it becomes: the city is rotten beneath its gold, and the plague that destroyed her life didn’t come from nowhere.
How much of yourself can you burn before only the monster is left to deliver justice?
Wings Born in Ruin is a character-driven adult dark fantasy about grief, survival, dragon-blooded descendants, and a slow-burn romance where trust becomes the greatest act of courage.
Tropes:
🔥 Blacksmith heroine
🔥 Morally grey characters
🔥 Found family that doesn’t fix you
🔥 Slow burn
🔥 Romance built on restraint
🔥 Gallows humor
🔥 Dragons as ancestors and gods
🔥 Desert-inspired world
🔥 Hidden-city mystery and political conspiracy
🔥 Grief, survival, and staying anyway
For readers, who have to survive their own mind. You are not alone.