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The Gravesend Series

Every debt leaves
a mark

Dark romantasy. Dual POV. A slow burn that earns its heat.

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The Gravesend Series

Debt Bonded

Debt Bonded by Marlowe Frost
The Gravesend Series

Debt Bonded

Book One of Five

In the port city of Gravesend, every supernatural debt is real and visible—it surfaces as a mark on your skin, and the interest compounds whether you can pay or not. Maren Locke is a debt-auditor who guards herself against every obligation. Silas Creed is the enforcer the Houses send when a debt comes due—a man covered in more marks than anyone alive, because he keeps absorbing other people's debts to save them.

"Where does caring end and control begin?"

Dark Romantasy Slow Burn Dual POV Urban Fantasy
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Wound Bound

Asha Dorne & Rowan Cage

Asha Dorne can pull the pain out of a body and carry it in her own—the most valuable thing a healer can do, and the most dangerous. Every wound she moves leaves a thread between her and the person she healed, and the threads don't let go.

Rowan Cage is a fighter who has spent his whole life learning to hold pain without flinching. When Asha heals him once, then again, neither of them chooses the bond that forms—but both of them feel it deepen with every hurt she takes off him.

In a city where dependency is just another kind of debt, a bond no one consented to becomes the most intimate trap of all. What happens when someone finally feels your pain—and stays anyway?

A steamy, open-door healer/fighter romance. New couple, same world, and a quiet danger spreading underneath it.
About the Author

Marlowe Frost

Marlowe Frost writes dark romantasy for readers who want their love stories tangled with thorns. Her debut series, Gravesend, is set in a fog-choked port city where debts leave literal marks on your skin and every act of kindness comes with compound interest.

She's drawn to stories about people who protect others at a cost to themselves, slow burns that don't cheat, and magic systems built on emotional logic. If the romance doesn't hurt a little before it heals, she's not interested.

She lives somewhere the fog rolls in, reads too much Mariana Zapata, and believes the best love stories are the ones you have to earn.

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