Heath has always stayed too long.
Too long in broken relationships. Too long believing that love meant endurance.
Until she meets Cernach—
a being bound by ancient hunger, trapped in a form that is more prison than flesh, and haunted by the truth of what he is.
She is meant to be his sacrifice.
But when she saves his life, something shifts.
And she stays anyway.
Not because he is safe—
but because he does not take.
He refuses to feed without consent, even when it leaves him starving.
He offers truth instead of illusion.
And in his presence, Heath begins to see herself clearly for the first time.
Drawn into dreamlike spaces where myth and memory intertwine, she discovers a different kind of power:
the power to choose, to offer, and to reclaim the parts of herself she once gave away just to survive.
But hunger has rules.
And truth is not gentle.
As their connection deepens—beyond body, beyond fear, beyond what either of them understands—Heath must decide:
Is this bond a path to freedom…
or a doorway into something far older, stranger, and more dangerous than either of them is ready to face?
A slow-burn, mythic dark romance about devotion, consent, and loving the soul within the monster—rather than the shape it wears.
