Cassandra Lacroix
10 volumes · Tessera Lumen
The left hand path never leads back.
Explicit adult content. Themes: cosmic horror, rituals, extreme eroticism. Recommended for adult readers.
Ten volumes. A forbidden bond crossing the boundary between the human world and dimensions humanity was never meant to touch. Dr. Isobel Ambrose did not seek the darkness — the darkness found her. Cassandra Lacroix builds a universe where cosmic horror meets the deepest desire, where love is a primal force capable of tearing reality apart. For readers of erotic horror and paranormal romance who do not fear the abyss.
Setting
Venice and beyond
Genre
Dark Paranormal Romance
Total volumes
10
Available now
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She destroyed reason to save him once. Now she must drown love itself or watch reality collapse.
Dr. Isobel Ambrose is dying. Three weeks until the bond kills her. Three weeks to find a grimoire destroyed two centuries ago. Venice is drowning with her. In the flooded crypts beneath the Ponte dei Sospiri, an ultradimensional horror uses Rhys as a bridge into our world.
Three spheres descended. Seven remain. And the Angel of Venom demands the ultimate price.
As the newly appointed Reverend Mother of Turin, Isobel faces her greatest challenge: Samael, the sphere of poison and betrayal. The Concilio delle Ombre offers her a Blood Pact: thirty days to hunt down Elijah Voros. But Elijah is sheltering his daughter Lyra, who carries the reincarnated consciousness of Salome, the First Betrayer. Meanwhile in Venice, Rhys is dying.
Four spheres descended. Four pieces of her soul sacrificed. And the darkness is only beginning.
Isobel Ambrose has become something monstrous. As Reverend Mother of the Nemeton, she's traded her humanity for power. Her greatest test awaits in the frozen Arctic, where a thousand-year-old device that can enslave minds has been hidden beneath the ice. Rhys is alive. And he is her obsession.
The murder of Reverend Mother Cordelia shatters the Shadow Concilio. Isobel is hunted.
Isobel Ambrose, practitioner, sphere-walker, accused killer, finds herself hunted by the institution meant to govern magical practice. The evidence is damning: her face captured in the victim's dying eyes. She must navigate forbidden necromancy, manage an alliance with Adrian — a Wendigo sent to seduce and betray her — while Rhys completes his transformation into something immortal.
When democracy fails, tyranny becomes necessary. When love costs everything, sacrifice becomes inevitable.
Isobel must save the Concilio from a threat the Shadow Council refuses to acknowledge. Hazel Czerny has perfected creating a vessel that houses consciousness beyond death. Rhys feels his existence unraveling as an entity older than civilization decides his body is the perfect vessel.
The transformation is nearly complete. Isobel Ambrose exists everywhere simultaneously while consuming everything it encounters.
As Isobel prepares to complete Gha'agsheblah, the final sphere that sacrifices her capacity for love, the global network of mystical practitioners becomes a battlefield where intimacy is weapon. Kora finds herself caught between loyalties.
They descended into the abyss seeking power. They returned with a truth that could destroy everything.
Isobel has achieved omnipresent consciousness spanning twelve cities but divinity is tearing her apart. Rhys exists in Klein's body but the flesh is rejecting its occupant. In San Francisco's deepest foundations, they face Satariel and discover they are fragments of singular consciousness.
In the darkness between moments, love becomes the recursion error that crashes reality.
Isobel has become the Reverenda Madre Primaris commanding two million minds. Rhys has achieved 100% integration with the Entity. Elena Baschi reveals the truth: Isobel is the Breaking itself. Her love for Rhys is the recursion error that will crash iteration 7,237.
The universe is dying. And only those willing to become nothing can save what comes next.
Six months after Vienna vanished. Kora remembers everything. Isobel and Rhys face their ultimate choice: merge or practice Tzimtzum — divine withdrawal. In a pocket of spacetime, Isobel confronts her mother's ghost. They are Container and Content. To complete Artemia's ritual, they must surrender everything.
Cassandra Lacroix writes dark paranormal romance and erotic horror set in a universe where the supernatural is always one step from reality. With The Left Hand Path Series she explores the boundary between love and obsession, between desire and cosmic terror, in a dense and uncompromising narrative.
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