Of Shadow and Sin
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Of Shadow and Sin is a dark romantasy filled with soul ties, ancient lore, and a world where almost everyone is supernatural. Vampires, hunters, witches, demons-if it exists in the shadows, it exists here.
Mavera's life in the small town of Aspen Hollow is built around her close-knit group of friends and the one person she trusts most: her best friend. But everything changes when his visit home places him at the center of a brutal murder, dragging her into a dangerous world she never knew existed.
Soon, Mavera begins having visions of a man who looks exactly like him-but isn't him. A man who starts stalking her from the shadows. As the line between reality and nightmare blurs, she is pulled into another realm entirely, where she meets a third man tied to secrets far older and darker than she could have imagined.
Caught between obsession, danger, and forbidden love, Mavera discovers that neither she nor her best friend are truly what she thought-and that even her own family has been hiding the truth. As buried magic awakens inside her, she's forced to unravel who she really is before the supernatural world consuming her destroys everything she loves.
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