Kaia has survived monster hunters, secret laboratories, supernatural conspiracies, and four dangerously irresistible shadowkind men. She thought that made her hard to surprise. Then she wakes in an underground bunker, chained to a bed by Varek, the powerful hellhound who has fought beside her, infuriated her, and tempted her far more than either of them likes to admit. He has not handed her to the High Court, but that does not mean she is safe. Ancient shadowkind authorities have decided Kaia is too dangerous to live, and the power burning inside her is becoming harder to dismiss as a strange mortal gift. Varek, Zev, Niko, and Draven each have their own reasons for standing between her and execution, but protecting Kaia could cost them their freedom, their place among their own kind, and possibly their lives. Meanwhile, the Order of Radiance is still hunting supernatural beings, a ruthless enemy from the shadowkind’s past is moving pieces into place, and the truth about Kaia threatens to ignite a conflict across worlds. The closer she gets to her four men, the more complicated survival becomes. Their bonds are no longer convenient alliances, and desire is no longer something any of them can pretend away. Kaia has spent her life refusing to be controlled by monsters or humans. Now she must decide what she is willing to become to protect the men who chose her, before the forces hunting her turn her fire into a weapon of their own.
Kaia has survived monster hunters, secret laboratories, supernatural conspiracies, and four dangerously irresistible shadowkind men. She thought that made her hard to surprise. Then she wakes in an underground bunker, chained to a bed by Varek, the powerful hellhound who has fought beside her, in...