He Was Never Mine, Always Hers

For ten years, Mikkahla Rose Quell believed her husband was hers.

She was wrong.

When her older sister, Raquel, is nearly killed in a hit-and-run, Mikkahla arrives at the hospital expecting fear, grief, and the possibility of losing the last family she has left.

Instead, she finds her husband at Raquel's bedside.

And discovers a truth that rewrites her entire marriage.

Evander and Raquel loved each other before Mikkahla ever knew his name. After the sudden deaths of their parents left her drowning in grief, a bargain was made without her knowledge: Evander would marry Mikkahla, protect her, and give her ten years to survive what she had lost.

Then he would return to the woman he had always loved.

Her sister.

Mikkahla refuses to spend another day living inside a decision other people made for her.

She leaves.

She files for divorce.

She returns to the career and independence she allowed to shrink around her marriage.

And far from home, beyond the broken gate of an ancient estate, she meets Malachai Varr.

Ancient. Dangerous. Powerful enough that most people know better than to tell him no.

Mikkahla does it anyway.

But while something unexpected begins growing between them, an old blood oath resurfaces-and this time, Mikkahla's name is written into a supernatural system that believes it has the right to decide what she is, who she belongs to, and what choices she is allowed to make.

They already took ten years from her.

They are not getting the rest.

An adult gothic paranormal romance about betrayal, vampires, sisterhood, divorce, rebuilding after deception, dangerous love, and a woman reclaiming the right to choose every part of her own future.