THE LAST LANTERN KINGDOM - Book Two: The Long Road

He was sent to save a kingdom. She was sent to make sure he never arrived.
Marrick walks the long road to Aurora carrying his fallen king's last hope - and a presence shadows him from the dark the whole way. When he finally catches her, he knows exactly what she is: a soldier of the shadow realm. He lets her stay anyway, telling himself she came because she wanted to.
Mara came to kill him. She just can't seem to do it.
As exhaustion wears down their guard and a dying world unspools around them, two people who have no word for what they're feeling fall toward each other on a road that can only end one way - at a gate, in the light, where the truth she's been hiding will finally be torn into the open.
A slow-burn fantasy about light, memory, and the cost of coming toward the warmth.