The Lovers and the Lie

A fractured world of floating continents and bioluminescent skies, where human-like species known as the Four-Blooded rule in tiers-Solari, Varnen, Thess, and Korr. Each species evolved with different traits, and with that, different fates. It is law-genetic, spiritual, and political-that one must never cross blood.
But love, as it so often does, disobeys.
Aurelia was born Solari-sun-blooded, noble, and revered. Her family sat high on the crystalline thrones of Vel Amaranth, a city of order and purity, where deviation was met with exile or death. She was dutiful, until the night she met Rev, a Korr-born thief from the sinkhole slums of The Hollow. His kind were considered dangerous-flesh marked by darkness, eyes that glowed silver in pitch black, and the ability to slip between shadows.
He was a liar, a criminal, but he loved her beyond anything he'd ever stolen.He said he changed. He hadn't.But every night, he returned to her. And she let him.