The Hunter's Heartbeat

Ashen Forest is not a place meant for the living, it breathes rot and secrets, feeds on bones, and never gives back what it takes.

When Aelira Thorne enters its cursed depths searching for her brother, she expects death, what she doesn't expect is Kaelon Veyr. A masked hunter wrapped in shadows, bound to a beast, and carrying a power older than the kingdom itself.

He saves her life, but saving her does not mean sparing her or does it?
Kaelon is a different breed that she has never seen a Dusk-born. The last of a fallen race once meant to guard balance, now reduced to myth and fear.

He does not trust easily or love at all. And yet, something about Aelira fractures the silence he has lived inside for centuries.

Trapped together in a forgotten cottage at the edge of ruin, desire coils where it should not. Dreams bleed into reality. Longing becomes dangerous. And the forest watches, patient and hungry.

Because Ashen Forest does not tolerate bonds, the past does not forgive bloodlines and loving a monster may cost more than a heart.

In a world where survival demands silence and power demands sacrifice, Aelira must decide:
Will she run from the darkness...
Or let it claim her completely?