Having lost the man she loved to the cold clutches of suicide, Amara's impulsive decision to join him leads her to accept the marriage proposal of a mysterious stranger she shares a drink with at a bar. Xelan's weddings were an awful affair, with each bride always dying once midnight arrived. Amara was meant to be no different until her bright brown eyes stared back at him on the morning after with a new tattoo of the moon over her heart. Thus begun the story of the grieving lover and the black widower, on the morning their marriage began.