What if the world you know was merely a canvas hiding a terrifying reality?

Aeryn is a master art restorer in London, accustomed to breathing life back into forgotten masterpieces. But her life shatters when, following a violent attack at St. Jude's Cathedral, she discovers that darkness doesn't just dwell within paintings?it pulses through her own veins. She is a Reaper, a figure of legend with the power to consume the energy of the living and the souls of the dead.

Torn from her reality and dragged to Aeterna?a dimension of crystal and shadows ruled by the implacable Valarians?Aeryn is forced into a destiny she never chose: to be magically bound to Kaelen Vane, a disgraced warrior prince exiled from his own throne. Linked by a black iron bracelet, their lives become entwined in a cruel symbiosis: if she feels pain, he bleeds. If she loses control, he is ordered to execute her.

As Aeryn struggles to master a void that threatens to devour her humanity, and Kaelen battles between the honor of his lineage and a forbidden desire for the woman he must watch, a millenary conspiracy emerges from the shadows. The Ash Throne, the engine that maintains the balance between worlds, is thirsty. And the Academy isn't looking for a savior... they are looking for a human battery for their final sacrifice.

From the crystal halls of Aeterna to the subterranean tunnels of a London on the brink of collapse, Aeryn and Kaelen must decide if they are pawns of destiny or the hand that destroys it.

The Veil has been torn. The void claims its inheritance. And in a war where light only serves to hide lies, love is the most dangerous sacrifice of all.