48 parts Complete MatureMy body sinks, water rushing through my nose and mouth like icy needles. I keep my eyes open, praying for a miracle. And then-he appears. A glowing form slicing through the water like lightning. His ginger hair floats around him, a halo of fire in the depths, dancing like the sea itself. He looks like an angel. My angel. My beautiful, guardian angel.
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Nineteen-year-old Marinette Karnowsky knows life as a bed of thorns and broken glass. Abandoned, abused, and barely surviving college on her own, she's grown used to pain. But everything changes the day her long-lost stepsister returns-sweeping Marinette away to a strange, stunning house in a town that doesn't exist on any map. A town where the supernatural breathes beneath every shadow.
There, Marinette uncovers truths she never imagined. Her beloved sister is not entirely human-and the town, not entirely safe. As she tries to make sense of it all, Marinette meets her sister's best friend: a golden-haired boy with a blazing smile and fire in his soul. The deeper she falls, the harder it becomes to ignore the pull between them-even if it risks everything, especially her sister's heart.
But their connection runs deeper than attraction. There's a secret buried in the halls of her new college, one that ties Marinette, her sister, and her mysterious fire-haired prince in ways none of them fully understand.
And as that secret begins to surface, so does a destiny Marinette never asked for... and may not survive.
