Rhea Calder has spent her life knowing exactly what she is: Lacking, ordinary, and permanently excluded from the magic carried by the powerful beings known as Counterparts. She has made peace with it, built a future in medicine, and learned to survive the Crossroads without expecting miracles. Then a wounded Damon Voss falls into her life, bringing a shadowy alter, dangerous enemies, and a mysterious force called the Veil with him. Damon should be trouble enough. Instead, Rhea also finds herself pulled toward Julian Aurell, a formidable man whose healing gifts, family loyalties, and distrust of Damon place him squarely on the other side. As attraction turns into a volatile triangle, a string of brutal murders begins targeting people like Rhea. The deeper she is drawn into the investigation, the more the rules she grew up believing start to fracture. Strange sensations stalk her after dark. Secrets surrounding her brother Theo refuse to stay buried. And the magic everyone insists she does not possess begins answering her in ways that should be impossible. Damon and Julian may be rivals, but both recognize the danger before Rhea is ready to admit it. Someone is experimenting with powers that were never meant to be manufactured, and Rhea may be closer to the truth than anyone realizes. Beneath the second moon, desire is complicated, loyalty is lethal, and being ordinary may have been the safest lie she ever believed.
Rhea Calder has spent her life knowing exactly what she is: Lacking, ordinary, and permanently excluded from the magic carried by the powerful beings known as Counterparts. She has made peace with it, built a future in medicine, and learned to survive the Crossroads without expecting miracles. Th...