"The one thing Sky has never told me, though it's the one thing I've always wanted to know, is my mother's name."
Sky and Lillian, ages 17 and 13, are all the other's got. They are held by the bond of Lillian's mother, Sky's older sister, the first to die. They've finally gotten off the streets, into a combat school with one goal: to destroy Lillian's father. Through the rejection of students who see them as being just as terrible as Eli, the Shadow, Sky starts to crumble, while Lillian tries to stand tall. But fighting an evil sorcerer isn't a job for kids, and Lillian can't connect to her mother without her name. Why won't Sky tell her her name?
Through heartbreak, death, pain, story, and song, Sky tries to come to terms with the fact that he can't live off of just one person. And Lillian starts not only losing her mother, but losing Sky. And she needs Sky.
After all, a flower can't be sheltered by a broken sky.
Started writing: 05/11/2021
Started posting: 07/17/2021
Finished writing: 11/23/2021
Finished posting: 11/26/2021
A violent passion. A dangerous bond. A nightmare that will change everything.
To Ava, love is about as real as fairytales. But it might be that fairytales, myths, and magic have some truth to them after all - as well as the monsters that lie in the shadows. Or she could just be completely out of her mind.
After a mental breakdown and a move to a new town, everything changes when Ava clashes with a stranger with eyes as black as midnight and a terrifying sinister air. Her wishes to feel something again become granted. But Ava soon learns that not only is he as cold as he is beautiful, but he brings something out of her, stronger than ever, like fuel to fire - something she's desperate to bury. He haunts her dreams and waking life, and staying away becomes harder than she could have ever imagined, risking her life, her humanity, and the people that she cares about. Not to mention the fate of the world.
She's fighting for life. He's fighting for death.
What does it take to live? What does it take to love?