A witch who rejected magic. A stranger with dangerous secrets. A coven falling apart.
Meredith Ashford spent five years building a life free from witches, demons, and the suffocating expectations of her bloodline. As a financial investigator in Seoul, she was finally free from Hollow Vale—until her dying mother's telegram pulled her back home with three words: "Come home. Your mother is dying. The witches are gone."
Three witches have disappeared without a trace. One by one, members of the ancient Ashford bloodline are vanishing from existence itself, their erasure so complete that memories of them are fading before anyone can mourn. Her mother is literally fading away, her body becoming less substantial with each passing day. And somehow, a dangerously enigmatic stranger named Kael Thorne—with amber eyes that burn like secrets and a knowledge of forbidden rituals that should not exist—knows far more than he should.
The Veil Severance. An ancient ritual designed to displace people into the Grey—a pocket dimension where victims can be slowly drained of their magical essence. The council claims they've never heard of it. But Meredith's missing father disappeared forty years ago under similar circumstances, and now those same patterns are repeating, accelerating, pulling her deeper into a web of conspiracy that extends into the heart of the coven itself.
Someone within the council is orchestrating the disappearances. Someone is deliberately draining her bloodline's magic. And Kael Thorne—whatever he is, demon-born or something far worse—may be the only person who knows the truth.
As the disappearances mount and the boundary between worlds begins to collapse, Meredith must choose: embrace the power she's spent years denying, trust a stranger whose very existence defies nature, or watch her entire bloodline be erased from reality. But every ritual requires a price, and every sacrifice demands something that can never be reclaimed.
In a coven built on secrets, some bonds transcend death. Some bonds transcend separation. Some bonds transcend the boundaries between what is and what might be. And those who forge such bonds learn that love requires becoming something the world no longer recognizes.
Perfect for readers who crave dark paranormal romance with complex magic systems, paranormal thrillers with twist endings, fantasy romance with strong female protagonists, and supernatural fiction with demon/paranormal mythology.
"Some bonds transcend death. Some bonds transcend separation. The rarest bonds transcend the boundaries between what is and what might be.