When darkness falls in love with light, who survives?
Amelia "Ash" Odom spends her days saving children from monsters-the human kind. As a child protective services investigator, she's built walls around her heart high enough to keep everyone out. Especially after her ex nearly destroyed her.
But one terrifying night outside a bar, a mysterious bartender named Eve intervenes when Ash's past comes back to haunt her. What begins as an act of kindness spirals into an intense romance that makes Ash feel safe for the first time in years. Eve seems to understand her in ways no one else does-the trauma, the scars, the careful distance Ash keeps from the world.
What Ash doesn't know is that she's being watched from another realm entirely. Queen Maeve of the Twilight Court-ancient, powerful, and fatally bored-witnessed Ash show compassion to a changeling child, something no mortal has done in centuries. Fascinated by this broken but resilient woman, Maeve begins to weave herself into Ash's life.
Now, as Ash finally opens her heart and lets herself fall in love, an immortal queen is pulling strings she can't see. And when the two worlds collide, the cost might be everything.
A dark romance where trauma meets immortality, and not everyone is who they claim to be.
Zaria is our main character here. She's a young adult that seemingly on a tight leash from her parents. She's the youngest out of the three of them. Her older twin brothers Salem and Elias guard her like a hawk. They were born and raised in The Meridian Pack. Amid her training to take over in leadership over the people she loves and cherishes, there was an unannounced attack.
A hunt that she didn't want to lead which she separated from the others to hunt on her own. There she met an old friend who came to say hello again. To warn her that something was heading her way.
This is a re-written hopefully with a better understanding of what's happening between Zaria and her family and in her social circle. I hope you like the re-write and have a blessed day.