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Lydia and Cassian are from opposite ends of eternity.
Lydia was born of shadow, a shade shaped by the River Styx itself. Raised by Charon, she ferries souls across the underworld and calls it duty. She's never seen sunlight. Never known warmth.
Cassian was a mortal explorer. When he drowns, he wakes on the riverbank between life and death... and meets the ferryman's heir.
She was never meant to speak to the souls she carries.
He was never meant to stay.
But some lights refuse to fade, even in the dark.
A dark academia romance set in the Underworld, where love and invention spark before the dawn.
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