Em Dubois, 35, likes to think of herself as rational. Breakups, unstable employment, existential dread? All survivable with enough compartmentalization and panicked decision-making.
Then she catches the attention of Vael: confident, impossible, annoyingly evasive, and far more ancient than he admits. As Em is drawn into the strange, welcoming circle around him, she discovers his history comes with consequences—and when those consequences turn toward her, she has to decide whether the family she’s found is worth risking everything for.