He never said he loved her. But sometimes silence cuts deeper than words ever could. Sienna never walked away-not really. She stayed, she waited, she felt, while Nicholas mastered the art of saying nothing. But in the stillness between them, something fragile began to fracture. Now, with their paths crossing again in the shimmer of winter and the shadows of old secrets, Sienna finds herself caught in the quiet pull of what could've been-and maybe still is. Leonardo offers her clarity. Warmth. A promise without conditions. But love isn't always a rescue-it can be a reckoning. Torn between a man who speaks in silences and another who says all the right things, Sienna must confront the past that shaped her and the future she dares to want. Because some hearts bruise without breaking. Some goodbyes are never spoken. And some shadows shine brighter than diamonds.

Aurelia Corvelle hadn't asked for any of this. And yet had her opinion ever mattered in the first place? All her life she had spent training, disciplining and collecting scars she would hide behind her seductress facade, parading the occasional night as vigilante and murderess Crimson Noire. She had been hidden away behind the safety of the rebellion compound up until she had become old enough to sneak her way out, the thrill of the escape and the freedom exhilarating to her soul. So when an infuriating, black haired, asshole of a man happened to ruin her night away, what more could she do but stab him? So what if he was pretty. He was a nuisance. A stupid, heterochromic nuisance. And with that she sealed her fate. Kairan Emrys had never encountered something like this before. Rather a woman like this. A very dumb, cocky, blatantly irrational woman. It wasn't that he cared for being stabbed, rather that she had had the nerve to stab him as if she had not a care for her life. As if she didn't know who he was. So when this regrettably hot whirlwind dumped her arrogance atop his ego, what more could he do but trap her within his own twisted games. Life was meant to be survived after all. The entertainment and her murder would also be free. A win-win situation. And with that he sealed her fate. Yet with the trials and perilous journeys they seemed to be forcibly pushed together into, will they be able to hold true to their character, or will fate have its way with them? In a world of kingdoms, magic, friendships and betrayals, trials and tests of courage and death, will these two ever be compatible or more importantly, ... alive? PLEASE NOTE: !SWEARING IS USED IN THIS BOOK!