“Lunette,” Nexus breathed again, this time harshly. He drew the knife down her throat, over her collarbones… slowly, lower, deliberately and cruel, then he leaned in closer. “If I see you again,” he cut the ropes keeping her bound. “I promise…” he planted a kiss on her forehead. “You will die.”The world ended long ago.What remains is power.In Aureline, factions rule from the ruins of a broken civilization.Lunette was never meant to be seen.She didn’t expect to fall in love.She didn’t expect to be accused of murder.Found over a body with blood on her hands and no way to defend herself without exposing her true identity, Lunette became the perfect culprit. And the boy who once looked at her like she was his everything… became the one who would condemn her.But he let her go.Only with a promise, that if they ever met again, she wouldn’t survive it.Years later, that promise comes back to haunt them both.To prevent war between their factions, Lunette is offered as part of a blood alliance, forced into the enemy’s territory… and into the life of the man who once swore to end hers.As old feelings begin to resurface, she mustn’t give in to writing this tale of forbidden romance because she now belongs to his brother.Meanwhile, buried truths begin to surface and a hidden enemy moves in the shadows. Lunette must prove her innocence by digging up the past or she might just die at the hand of the one she tries not to love.