Reaching For The Hound

She has the power of death in her hands. But it comes with a heavy price. A soul for a soul, death for death. In order to take life, there must be grief.

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Sana never asked to be touched by death. She didn't even realize she had something inside her. But when a friend dies, the grief awakens something in her. Something ancient, something not quite mortal-her life was rewritten. She grew up in the shadows of an orphanage, wanting more for her life, she left what was supposed to be a safe haven. Now she's haunted by dreams, hunted by truths she didn't understand.

And then he came.

Noah Hanz is more than he appears. Beautiful, unreadable, and bound to the underworld by punishment and purpose, he is Cerberus in human skin-the hound of Hades, sent to watch her, judge her, maybe even end her.

But love was never part of the order.

In the quiet spaces between stolen moments, the lingering fear of what she is becoming, and a grief so strong it consumes her, Sana must make an impossible choice: let go of her anger and plans for revenge.

Because now someone else pays every time she uses her power. Someone she loves.

And Noah, he would rather defy the gods, than let them touch her.