He has to kill her. She has to save him.
An assassin determined to discover the reason behind the deaths of a team from his city finds more than he bargained for when he learns the truth.
Aster Westmayne was supposed to be dead, a child lost to starvation or predators when her father had been temporarily taken captive by his enemy. Little did anyone know, she was instead abducted and locked away as a servant inside the broken city of New Bethel, hidden from the eyes of anyone capable of knowing who she truly was—the daughter of a Reaper and combative prodigy who’d abandoned his city and duty with his wife. Ten years later, her father in secret brought her to his home, safe inside the stone walls and mountains surrounding Jarsil.
With Garin Westmayne now in control of the largest and most dangerous city and a daughter being trained to follow in his footsteps, one man makes it his mission to kill her and stop what he believes to be the destruction of everything. But she might save him before he can, leaving him with no choice but to choose a side in the decade-long feud between the two most powerful men in the world.
Sometimes, the devil you know isn’t always better than the one you don’t.
The story of a brutal man trapped in a cycle of violence and despair as he finds something truly worth fighting for and the lengths to which he’ll go to keep it safe. A companion to the Reave Series, see the story from his perspective.
Tropes:
- Slow Burn
- From His Perspective
- Dark & Gritty
- He Falls First
- Age Gap
