"If you're reading this, we're dead. But I hope the dragons are still singing." After betrayal tears her family and kingdom apart, Iris is left with venom, fire, grief, and a younger brother who's losing himself more each day. Darev is too young to understand war, but too haunted to forget it. He's chasing comfort in places that don't love him back, trying to figure out who he is without everything he was meant to be. In Heaven, an obedient angel named Lucifer falls in love... and loses everything. Cast out, broken, and changing into something she doesn't yet understand, she begins to wonder who she is beyond the name she was given. And across the border, a quiet prince grows up in a kingdom built on fear and silence. One day, he'll have to choose who he wants to be - if he ever gets the chance.

In the cursed city of Xalathor, surviving is one thing. Keeping your heart intact is another. William is fighting his own demons, while Drystan stands quietly steady, learning how to love in a city that seems designed to crush everything soft inside you. Dahlia is thrown headfirst into the Ripper case, where the killer's murders are growing more elaborate, more gruesome, and closer to home than anyone dares imagine - all while she struggles with a relationship that won't let her rest. The Halls want William behind bars. The Inquisitors are prowling. Calian, haunted by the ghosts of his past, forces his way into their lives. And somewhere in the shadows, a new, unlikely alliance might hold the key to breaking Xalathor's curse... If anyone survives long enough to see it. Monsters are hunting. Curses are spreading. The past refuses to stay buried. And in a city full of ghosts, William, Drystan, Calian and Dahlia are learning that surviving isn't enough. Sometimes you have to fight for each other.

!!THIS BOOK HAS BEEN FINISHED, BUT IT'S CURRENTLY BEING REWRITTEN. UNEDITED CHAPTERS HAVE BEEN UNPUBLISHED!! REWRITE STATUS: 18/63 In the cursed city of Xalathor, two monster hunters just want to survive their job. And each other. William talks too much, jokes too often, and never takes anything seriously. Drystan barely talks at all. Their uneasy partnership survives because neither of them asks for more than the job requires - and feelings were never part of the deal. Then a messy and loud teenage girl barges in. Dahlia's not just here to end a curse; she wants something more. A family. A place to belong. And she's not leaving without it, even if the monster hunters she's set her sights on are experts at pushing people away. Between the emotional wildfire named Dahlia and their own unresolved tension, William and Drystan are in deeper than they ever planned. Thrown together by bad luck and worse timing, they stumble into something messier and way more terrifying than monsters: feelings. Dahlia won't let them run from it. In a city full of ghosts, the three of them are building something new. If they don't ruin it first. Materials used for the cover: https://www.vecteezy.com/free-png/dahlia-flower