Some loves are written in blood. Others are sealed in darkness.Nova Kline expects nothing more from her evening than a quiet night at a dimly lit diner, jotting down notes in her battered notebook. But the illusion of her mundane life shatters the moment a striking, silver-haired stranger walks through the door.His name is Chase Mountbatten. He is a fallen angel who has been watching Nova from the shadows, drawn to her by an unseen force like gravity. Chase has broken sacred orders to stay away from her, determined to defy fate and protect her from the dark forces trailing at her heels.Before Nova can wrap her mind around the otherworldly intensity of their meeting, the danger arrives. Damien Malthus-the ruthless, self-proclaimed leader of the Fallen-strides into the diner to claim Nova as his own, revealing that she has already been marked. Caught in the suffocating tension between two powerful, immortal rivals who speak in riddles and threats, Nova is thrust into the center of an ancient war between those who fell and those who still serve. To survive, she must trust a dangerous stranger who insists she has no other choice.