The Remains of Hope

*Spin-off novel from the Rising Phoenix Trilogy*

Four years after a war she didn't really participate in should've been enough time for Amanda Beauchou to recuperate. It was supposed to have been a slice of adventure - to be a human at the backlines of a war of Drakhenae, non-humans who used to be a myth to her. It wasn't supposed to involve her twin's death, and it wasn't supposed to involve a Drakhenae who whispered promises.

But it did, and in the aftermath of her twin's death, her guilt, and the seemingly never-ending wrongdoings, Amanda wants nothing to do with Ivan Romano, the Drakhenae who can't give up. Though, does she really want him to?

Ivan Romano thought he knew everything about war, about the high stakes, consequences, and the aftermath. Never, in all his years of underground work and rebelling, did he think it could involve a certain Amanda Beauchou, someone who would haunt his thoughts much longer than the war ever could. But when information gets out of a serum, he knows the war isn't really over, and when Amanda's life becomes in possible danger, the two are thrown back together.

Maybe their remains of hope aren't really remains anymore.

- This book is rated mature due to some depressing themes and sexually mature scenes (though the latter is marked) -
[Word count: 80,000 - 90,000]

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Update 12/16/23: Everything save for the first five chapters will be unpublished as this series will be undergoing a major re-write in the coming months. For updates and information on how to read the first draft still, find me on IG under @author_linguisticsaddict