Divine law has been broken. Officers Bones and Bishop are pulled off their assigned mundane jobs to take up their original roles as homicide detectives, two hundred years after their last case. At first sight, it looks like a routine suicide, until the Hound picks up an extra set of DNA signatures and a syringe containing an unusual purple liquid. To make matters worse, Officer Bones is struggling to keep her emotions together. Time is wearing her down and so is her former partner. She needs to solve the case quickly. It's only a matter of time before she cracks, or even worse; Bishop finds out.

"Cay, will you look at me?" I turned around and lifted my eyes to look into his. His arms were braced on the counter and he was looking at me sideways. The glow of the light coming from the living room and into the kitchen gave his face an otherworldly impression. I waited for him to continue. He closed his eyes and sighed, "Cay... Just so you know... I wanted to do it. Right there, a while ago. But you know why I couldn't, and why we shouldn't." There was a pain in my chest at his words. But I just gazed at him, unsure of what to say. He was right. It would be a mistake. And no matter how many times my weak heart and frail mind wanted him to kiss me, it would be selfish, not to mention immoral. In the end we would both regret it, and that would hurt the most. © rainthereader 2012 All Rights Reserved

When a twenty-something-year-old washes up on the beach of Rook Island with absolutely no memory, her struggle for survival begins. Once she meets the pirate king, Vaas Montenegro, her struggle only worsens. Fear, war, romance, and eventually her past all put her sanity to the test. WIll she be able to stay sane or adjust to her new life?