Magic demands balance. The price is never what you expect.
He chose her once.
It cost him everything.
Lilli came to Afallon for answers.
She didn’t expect him.
Euron was never human—but something in him remembers her.
Enough to choose her when he shouldn’t.
And that choice awakens something beneath the lake.
Because the water doesn’t forgive.
It doesn’t forget.
And it doesn’t let go.
As the trials close in and alliances turn deadly, Lilli is pulled deeper into a world where love is a liability—and memory can be stripped away piece by piece.
Still, she returns to him.
Even knowing what he is becoming.
Even knowing what it will cost.
Because this time, there is more to lose than her heart.
Something fragile.
Something real.
Something the water will take.
When the prophecy comes, it demands everything.
Now Lilli has one choice:
Save what she loves…
or watch it be taken.
Because the water always remembers.
And it always collects.
