Where Shadows Remember

Elara Thorne has spent her life learning how to protect her people.

Raised in a family known for hunting the immortal Velkari, she was taught to see them as monsters-soulless, dangerous, and merciless. But Elara has never quite fit the mold. While others sharpen blades, she tends to the wounded. While others prepare for war, she listens... and questions.

Because something has never felt right.

When the truth begins to fracture the world she thought she understood, Elara is forced beyond the safety of her home and into a realm whispered about in fear-Aethralis, where nothing is as it seems, and everything she was taught begins to unravel.

And there, she meets him.

Vaerion Virex-an immortal sovereign carved from shadow and power, sworn to protect his kind and destroy hers. Cold, controlled, and utterly unforgiving, he is everything Elara was warned about... and nothing she expected.

Bound by circumstance and divided by everything they believe, the line between enemy and ally begins to blur. But as ancient forces stir and a long-buried darkness rises, Elara and Vaerion will be forced to confront a truth far more dangerous than either of their worlds.

Because some stories were never meant to be forgotten.

And some shadows... remember everything.