Nightbound

My name is Alexandra Wescott.

New Orleans was supposed to be my escape- a place to shed the monotony of a life plagued by the corporate burden and the absence of a mother who was off to her paradise city. You only turn twenty-five once and in hopes of that, my bestie and I planned to lose ourselves in the wilder side of this sin city.

But if I'd known what awaited me, I would have never set foot here.

Well, I did. And hell broke loose.

A creature from myth and nightmare attacked me, leaving my best friend in a coma, and I found myself shielded by a mysterious stranger whose power was so unfathomable it seemed to defy reason. He also happens to be my protector.

Wait what?

There are two sides to the world: the side of day... and the world of night.

The cruel, mystical, and magical side where creatures only heard of in stories exist. And the guy who protected me?

Nik Ryder is a Nighthunter and I am his to protect- nothing more. And guess what? The benefactor who paid him to protect me? Nada. No clue about them either.

Well, my protector wants to keep things professional while we figure out who's trying to kill me. Solid. I can be professional... except staying away from the magnetic pull of those grey eyes feels increasingly impossible.

Yet the question lingers: why me? Is there more to my life than I ever realized? As the pieces began unravelling themselves, I found myself standing at the edge of an abyss, path shrouded by lies-one that threatened to change everything I thought I knew about myself and the world around me.

A veil of lies, spun by fate itself.