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Claudia Walker has been alive for five hundred and thirty-six years. She's seen wars won and lost, kingdoms rise and fall, and she's learned the hard lessons about whatimmortality really costs. As the oldest Walker sibling, Claudia has spent centuries guarding the family she has left, and keeping their magical bloodline hidden from the unsuspecting world.
But there's one secret Claudia guards more than any other: her two-year-old daughter Navy.
Part vampire, part fairy, Navy is all Claudia has left, and it's a secret she absolutely can't compromise. Now safe at her family's castle with her aunt and uncles surrounding her, Navy remains oblivious of the peril that comes with her lineage and those who'd kill for her existence. Claudia's established a peaceful life. Her daughter.
Her family.
Her flowers. A nice cozy rhythm she's assured herself needs to be preserved. And then into it bursts Leo Williams.
Smart, ambitious, and dangerously observant, Leo has a knack for peering through barriers Claudia hasn't taken centuries to fortify, and as he draws near, her already fragile control starts crumbling. Leo doesn't know what or who Claudia truly is. He knows nothing of the castle hidden among the snowy peaks of the northern mountains, the centuries-old secret guarding a family, or the daughter Claudia's prepared to dismantle everything for.
One by one, secrets are exposed to the light, and if Leo digs too deep and gets too close to discovering the truth about Navy's existence, Claudia'll face her toughest decision.
It's not as simple as saving her family, it's a question of how much of the world she's willing to destroy to keep the ones she loves safe. The last thing Claudia ever wanted was a love so captivating she couldn't live without it, and Leo Williams... He just wasn't part of the plan. And neither was letting him stay.