❝whenever i see you, my heart bursts.❞ ❝and whenever i see you, my heart aches.❞ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ where fawn knox endures eighty days of heartache, only to fall in love. ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ BLURB INSIDE ORIGINAL IDEAS ANY SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THIS BOOK & OTHERS ARE PURELY COINCIDENTAL. ©2018 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ [please bare in mind this is my first draft for this novel. many chapters will be given 'face-lifts,' as i call them, but the skeleton of the novel will always remain the same.]

❝ beware of those who enter the forest. ❞ They are creatures that born from the sublime and haunt those who wrongs them. It was the written rule the Nascherein was built upon, but to Leon Kiesinger, it was much greater than the imperial soldiers could hold. Sheltered away from the war and its decaying matter, he finds himself unable to avoid death, his haunting dreams told him to follow it, to see where it would lead him to. But it comes with a price, something that calls for a ghost among trees. © arden reni 2017 ― Featured as 'Hot Off the Press' | 04.18.18 ― Wattys Longlist | 08.31.18

"They may see you as how you try to be, but what I see is what you try not to be." SHE IS A BASTARD... Maxine Theobald hid from the rest of society to protect her father's name. But as she grows tired of her role-playing games every year during the famous Theobald weekend parties, she starts to question how she has been living her life. She starts to wonder about the other part of her that she was deprived of--her mother and why she left her. A DISGUISE... Having finally found the courage to search for the one thing that she believes can help her understand her true nature, Maxine cuts her hair, puts on her breeches, and runs away from the only home she has ever known. She travels to the affluent town of Wickhurst and found herself employed as the valet of the famous rake Nicholas Everard, a game she will later find to be quite dangerous. SOMETHING DIFFERENT... Maxine set out into an adventure with none but one goal, yet found herself stumbling upon an unlikely find for the search of something else--romance. Still set in the fictional place of the Town, this fifth book in the Everard Family series follows one heroine who has chosen to defy the norm and her own fears in an attempt to understand her own nature, the first step to a discovery of not just about her lineage, but of love so unexpectedly, irritatingly and undeniably powerful. (This story is a standalone title in the Everard Family series.)