Five years ago, Isla Reyes and Noah Liang met in a city neither of them called home. A spontaneous night turned into something more—a connection too intense for strangers, yet too fleeting to hold onto. She was on the brink of leaving for graduate school abroad. He was reeling from a broken engagement. Neither of them expected to stay in touch. They didn’t. They promised not to.Now, Isla is back in the same city—older, more guarded, carrying both accomplishments and quiet regrets. She’s a clinical psychologist opening her own practice. Noah, once an architect who abandoned blueprints for photography, now runs a cozy café and art space on the same street. A chance encounter pulls them back into each other’s orbit.

It was just a delivery. A few things I’d ordered from the 7-Eleven app—instant noodles, a carton of milk, maybe a snack or two—nothing out of the ordinary. The kind of errand that fills the empty stomach in a quiet day. And yet, that day stayed with me like a song I couldn’t stop humming.

Every reaper is assigned a name, a time, and a place. But when Thorne arrives early for the death of Mira Danvers, he finds himself unable to take her soul. She recognizes him from her dreams—dreams she’s had since childhood. To uncover why their fates are intertwined, they strike a deal: he will grant her six more months, and she will help him uncover the prophecy buried within the Book of Endings. As their journey leads them through realms of forgotten magic, they fall irrevocably in love. But when time runs out, one soul must be sacrificed to save the other.

In a world where ancient gods are sealed within the bloodlines of royal families, every monarch inherits not only the throne—but the divine burden of power. Princess Elira of the Ember Throne is next in line to inherit the fire god’s essence, which grants her immense power—but at the cost of slowly burning away her humanity.When a peace treaty forces her to marry Prince Kael, heir to the frozen kingdom of Vaelir and vessel of the rival frost god, tensions erupt. Their union is a political game played by kingdoms desperate to prevent a divine war. But Elira and Kael’s gods despise each other, and so do they—or so it seems.As assassins target them from within the palace and an ancient cult seeks to awaken a forbidden third god, Elira and Kael must reluctantly unite. Their divine powers begin to merge in strange, dangerous ways—hinting that their union may not be a curse, but the key to restoring balance or unleashing apocalypse.