He was cursed to roam the forest forever.She was the first soul who made him feel alive.Alisha Hart didn't go to Blackwood Forest looking for danger. She went to paint, to escape, to lose herself in nature the way she always did. But the forest had other plans.Deep within those ancient woods waits Kael Blackwood—a ghost lord bound to the land by a witch's curse three centuries old. For 300 years, he has drifted through the trees like smoke, watching the living from the edges of their world, craving warmth he can never have.Then Alisha arrives.She is light where he is darkness. Fire where he is ice. Everything he has been starving for—and everything he should stay away from.He tries to resist. He fails.Now he haunts her dreams, stalks her nights, follows her across England with a hunger that terrifies even him. He wants her body. Her soul. Her eternity. And he will stop at nothing to claim her—because she is the only thing that makes his endless death feel worth enduring.Alisha knows she should be afraid. She knows she should run, scream, forget. But every time his silver eyes lock onto hers, every time his cold fingers trace her skin, she feels something she can't explain—a pull deeper than fear, stronger than reason.She has a boyfriend who loves her. A life that makes sense. A future that doesn't include ghosts.But Kael isn't just a ghost.He's her obsession. Her destruction. Her fate.---They say love conquers all.But some curses are stronger than love.And some loves are curses in themselves.