Deja Vu [Dean Winchester x OC]

[BOOK ONE OF THE NOX AEVUM SERIES]

Maia Amelia Anderson was never supposed to get a second beginning.

In another life, she was Maia Winchester: hunter, trauma surgeon, wife of Dean Winchester, mother, survivor, and widow. She lived through apocalypse after apocalypse, built a family out of blood and stubborn love, and still ended up standing at Dean's grave in 2020 with their children gathered around her and everything she had fought for buried beneath wet Kansas soil.

Then Jack Kline appeared with an impossible offer.

A second chance.

But time is not a clean thing, and mercy has always had a strange way of drawing blood. Instead of returning Maia to the moment she expected, Jack sends her soul crashing back into her nineteen-year-old body in 1998, years before Dean Winchester ever knows her name, before Hawthorne House exists, before her parents are killed, and before her best friend Dahlia is torn apart by a monster Maia once failed to stop.

This time, Maia wakes up screaming before the bloodbath.

This time, Dahlia is still alive.

Armed with memories of a future no one else has lived yet, Maia refuses to let fate take the same people from her twice. She saves Dahlia, warns her parents, throws herself back into school, and begins building the foundation for something that should have existed long before the Winchesters ever needed it: a sanctuary for hunters, children, survivors, and the people left bleeding after the monsters are dead.

But changing fate is not the same thing as escaping it.