Our parting shattered one soul and healed the other, carving a rift between worlds that may never mend.

Paislee

My family faded into the shadows of memory the moment I fled the cursed bounds of Ryker's estate.

Ten years passed in silence, until an unexpected message from my sister, Pandora, pulled me back like a spell I couldn't resist. I had no map, yet the path unfolded in my mind as if etched there by ancient magic. Even when a dark stranger warned me to pivot, I continued, drawn inexorably toward the place I'd sworn never to return.

Ryker may be gone, but something malevolent still clings to the land like a stain on my soul. An unseen force coils in the air, whispering secrets I can't quite hear. I ache to run, to vanish again before I'm forced to face the remnants of my bloodline... or whatever they've become.

Pandora

I missed her.

Not in the sweet, aching way poets write about?but like a curse that wouldn't lift, a shadow clinging to my every step.

But I'm chasing one outcome, one forbidden hunt. The one person capable of granting it has been exiled. Now, with the fractured remnant of my family on the verge of reunion, the chance to reclaim the life I once dared to dream lies days away. So close I can taste the magic in the air.

All it will cost me is everything.

Every loyalty. Every oath. Every life tethered to mine.

I only have to betray them all.