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She only wanted to hold him once.
Fate demanded she never let go.
Elara has always lived with her feet in two worlds - the ordinary one of school, friends, and a future she's supposed to want, and the secret one only she can see. Whispers in empty rooms. Shadows that move with intention. A presence that has followed her since childhood, watching but never revealing itself.
His name is Caelum.
And he is not a ghost. Not a demon. Not an angel.
He is something far more mysterious: a spirit bound to an ancient promise he cannot remember, tethered to a world that has forgotten he exists. For centuries, he has drifted unseen - until Elara's eyes find him in a moonlit clearing, and for the first time, he feels seen.
What begins as a haunting becomes a conversation. The conversation becomes a friendship. And the friendship becomes a love that defies every law of nature, magic, and fate itself.
But loving a spirit comes with a cost.
The Veil - the ancient boundary between the living and the ethereal - begins to crack wherever they touch. Monsters from forgotten realms slip through. An order of secret keepers called The Watchers hunts them both - Elara for breaking sacred laws, Caelum for being a love that was never meant to exist.
And then there is the truth Caelum has forgotten:
He wasn't always a spirit.
He was taken - stripped of his body by a curse older than kingdoms. And the only way to free him, to give them a real future, requires Elara to make an impossible choice:
Lose him forever.
Or lose herself to save him.