Bound and Unbound: A paranormal novella duology
Ali Hazelwood
Never Keep: Sins of the Zodiac, Book 1
by Caroline Peckham
About this book
From the Amazon.com and Wall Street Journal 1 bestselling authors of the Zodiac Academy series Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti.
The dragons are lost.
The elements are at war. Enlisting isn’t optional.
And I’m falling for a man who wants me dead.
I’m a wielder of hearts and summoner of corruption. Heir to nothing and born to a fool in the wrong damn month.
But I’m also one of only two Fae in this divided land of hellions who might be starting to see through the lies we’ve swallowed for so long.
In the year we turn twenty-one, conscripts from across the warring nations of air, fire, earth and water are sent to Never Keep – the only place in our besieged continent where our magic can be Awakened.
But something is wrong inside Never Keep. Something which might extend far beyond the reaches of this desolate fortress. Within the gothic walls of this frigid castle in the snow, we’re left to hold our own against the brutal Fae from the opposing lands.
The Reapers are merciless. The Royals are lying. The Werewolves run rampant and Vampires roam the wastelands in bloodthirsty covens. But even though death lurks in every shadow of the Keep, it’s the least of my worries.
I’m delving into secrets the stars don’t want me uncovering, making alliances with Fae born to be my enemy, falling for a sinner while promising my heart to a different heathen and somewhere amid it all, I’m supposed to win a war.
I thought the only thing I had to do was survive my magical instruction.
Turns out, fate doesn’t favour the wicked.
This is an enemies-to-lovers romantasy series set in the same world as Zodiac Academy, but it's a dark and villainous tale of its own. You haven't met tainted souls like these before or enemies that hate each other as deeply as these characters do. Book 1 in the series will leave your heart raw and bloody. You'll be left gasping for breath and aching for more of the twisted Fae and they might just be irredeemable...
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2026
- ASIN
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Reader Reviews
September 26, 2024
𝗧𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘀:Fantasy Romance, MF, Academy, Dark, Shifters, Enemies to Lovers - My Guess at least 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: 💜💜💜💜 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁: 💧 𝗣𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: 🖊️🖊️🖊️🖊️ 𝗣𝗢𝗩:Dual FMC 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁: Audiobook Welcome to the next epic fantasy by the authors of Zodiac Academy, set in a different country as Solaria, we get to see a whole new side of the Fae. The Endless War has raged between the 4...
March 3, 2026
Never Keep is pure Valenti & Peckham chaos: dark, messy, emotionally wrecked characters colliding in a prison full of secrets, violence, and trauma... and somehow still finding time to flirt, stab, and make us swoon. Welcome to hell—I’d happily stay. Let’s talk tropes: ✖️ Feral enemies to messed-up soulmates ✖️ Who did this to you but make it psychotic ✖️ Deadly forced proximity in the Darkmore prison ✖️ Touch her and die, but also I might kill her first energy ✖️ He falls first but will never...
May 14, 2026
Well the twisted sisters did it again 🔥 great book and a whiplash of an ending. To no one’s shock when reading any book by these two, I’m also mad and concerned for our FMCs with what other twisty twists they’re gonna face 😵💫 )
April 9, 2026
I was really excited to read Never Keep since the Zodiac Academy series is one of my favorites. Unfortunately, this one didn’t quite work for me. Because the book is set in the same world as ZA, I went into it thinking that it would share similar elements (you know, those magical elements that made ZA so amazing) but that connection felt minimal at best. In fact, had we not been told these books shared the same world I would have thought it was a completely different one! Aside from the magical...
April 9, 2026
](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_avp?ie=UTF8&nodeId=G8UYX7LALQC8V9KA) I was really excited to read Never Keep since the Zodiac Academy series is one of my favorites. Unfortunately, this one didn’t quite work for me. Because the book is set in the same world as ZA, I went into it thinking that it would share similar elements (you know, those magical elements that made ZA so amazing) but that connection felt minimal at best. In fact, had we not been told...
