Elysian's fate has been sealed. She will die... but not without a fight. Elysian believes there's another way to set her people free from the dark forces of the Abyss, that had killed the world beyond her island, without sacrificing herself and passing the curse to the next Elysian. After making a deal with her father on her 19th birthday to give her more time to find another way, Elysian's 20th birthday is three months away and she nowhere close to finding the answers she needs to save her people and herself. Elysian is just about to give into fate when the unexpected happens...

[Wattpad Featured Story: Fantasy Hidden Gems] When we were children they whispered about beasts that hid amongst the shifting dunes, dark things with sharp teeth and loud howls and an insatiable thirst. Animals that gutted their prey and left intestines rotting in the sun and bones sprawled out across dried riverbeds. We listened with rapt attention and shivered despite the searing desert heat. But I'm not a child anymore, and I know better. The sand-dusted coyotes, the sleepy vipers-they're just animals, dumb and slow. I've met the real beast of the dunes, and he's nothing like they say. He wears the skin of a man, and the silks of a noble, and spins lies with a silver tongue sharp enough to make the earth bleed... And he holds my life in his blood-stained hands.