Some love stories are written in time. Theirs was written in blood. For ten years, Ivy Flores has hidden from a past she doesn't fully remember. She spends her days running The Hidden Moon, a quiet bookstore where old pages smell of magic, her daughter Ayla is the center of her world, and monsters exist only in forgotten fairy tales. Until a stranger walks through the door. Beautiful. Impossible. Familiar. Aranel looks at Ivy as though he's spent centuries searching for her. He knows things he shouldn't-her name, her nightmares, the strange power sleeping beneath her skin. As ancient bloodlines awaken and a forgotten war begins to stir, Ivy discovers the truth she's been running from. She isn't just caught in the prophecy. She is the reason it exists. And when she learns the prophecy demands the blood of those she loves most, Ivy makes only one promise: she will become strong enough that destiny itself will fail before it takes her own.