A Stranger I've Always Known
11 parts Ongoing Maya Stevens is a woman anchored in reality. As a brilliant young art curator in New York City, her life is a carefully catalogued collection of facts, dates, and provenances. But the art is beginning to bleed into her life in ways she can't explain.
She suffers from dreams of a medieval fortress, the scent of woodsmoke, and the silver-gray eyes of a dark-haired stranger who holds her as she dies. She possesses an unnerving, intimate knowledge of history she never learned. And in a forgotten corner of the museum hangs a centuries-old portrait of an unknown lady whose face is, impossibly, her own.
Maya believes she is losing her mind.
Until he walks into her life.
Lucian Ashford. A billionaire benefactor as handsome, brilliant, and ancient as the artifacts he collects. His gaze is too intense, his knowledge of history too personal, and his every touch feels like a jolt of phantom memory. He is a stranger, yet her very soul seems to recognize him, to ache for him with a longing that spans centuries.
He offers her a world of impossible truths and a love story written across a thousand years. But Lucian is not just a mysterious suitor. He is a creature of the night, with secrets darker than any shadow and enemies far older than any city. And his obsession with Maya is about to reawaken an ancient war, placing her at the center of a battle she doesn't even know she's been fighting for six lifetimes.
She thought she was haunted by a ghost. She's about to discover the ghost is ...