Daughter of No Worlds (2020)

Tisaanah wants the power to free people she was forced to leave behind; her reluctant teacher, Max, wants distance from the institutions she needs. That disagreement gives their slow-growing trust moral weight before the romance becomes physically intimate. Broadbent combines close domestic moments with a widening conflict about slavery and magical power. There is on-page sex and substantial violence. Begin here expecting the full three-book War of Lost Hearts, rather than a self-contained romantic resolution.