“Look at you,” he snarled against my ear, his breath hot against my skin, sending shivers down my spine. “You’re nothing but a broken, pathetic toy.”Each word struck harder than claws. Worse than my stepmother’s beatings, worse than the day I was cast out and left to wander alone.“Z… Zade.” I couldn’t swallow the tight knot in my throat, my eyes following his through the reflection of the mirror. His gaze met mine with the same lens I had always used to see myself, and in it there was nothing but disgust. I was disgusted too by the scar that reminded me of what I truly was, An ugly, wolfless girl. And for that, I hated the Moon Goddess.They always say destiny is about timing, that you can meet the right person at the wrong time. But what if fate is more twisted than that?What if the night I was born, when lightning split the sky into ribbons of fire, destiny branded me as cursed? What if I ignored my godmother’s warnings, until the night everything changed? When the storm followed me home, and the world whispered that I was nothing but an omen of ruin?My name is Storme. Everything I touch is left in shatters, like the wreckage after a dark storm. And maybe Zade isn’t my salvation. Maybe he’s only the next victim of my curse.

“Is this what you wanted?” He sneers, eyes cold and unforgiving. It was as if I was looking into the eyes of a stranger. He looks down on me due to his tall stature. “To be the ‘pathetic’ whiny burden you have always been?” I flinch at his words. No, this cannot be, this cannot be happening. This is not my Nate, my Nathaniel. I struggle to maintain my composure. My breath came in shallow, ragged gasps, each one a painful reminder of the betrayal that had brought me to this breaking point.  ********* At just five years old, she was abducted and replaced to protect her family’s reputation, as it would have been scandalous for her influential father to have a kidnapped child. Returning home, she felt like a stranger in a place where her parents had long forgotten their love for her. Nate her husband, was her knight in shining armor… or so she thought. Betrayed and left to die by the people she trusted. What happens when life gives her and her unborn child a second chance?