The Dead OnesThe Field of Flowers has burned, but the beautiful strangers who destroyed it are not finished.
Elin escaped the Fairhavens once. She knows Adrian cannot love her, no matter how tenderly he speaks her name. She knows that he and his companions are creatures of vengeance from a dark spiritual realm—something like the dangerous fae of the oldest Swedish tales. Yet even as she turns back to rescue Cécile Lebon, Elin remains tempted to whisper Adrian’s name and invite him to find her.
Cécile does not want to be rescued.
After witnessing the destruction of her home and the deaths of her family, she has surrendered herself to Nicholas Fairhaven. In his presence, her stutter disappears, and Cécile delights in the sound of the voice she was once afraid to use. She believes Nicholas has freed her. She believes he loves her.
Nicholas knows that he cannot.
But Adrian, Nicholas, and Octavia are the last three of their kind, and Nicholas has begun to wonder whether Cécile might offer them something forbidden: a way to create another without breaking the divine law that condemned their race to extinction.
Justin Dewey claims he can help Elin save her. An investigator of strange deaths and ruined families, he has followed the Fairhavens for years. But Justin is no hunter. He is their acolyte, enchanted by their beauty and convinced that delivering his own corrupt family into their hands will earn him immortal life.
The Deweys have erased inconvenient deaths for generations. They altered records, buried their victims without names, and trusted that wealth and respectability would keep the truth beneath the earth.
Now the dead are being remembered.
Another guilty house has opened its doors. The Fairhavens have come to collect what it owes—and not everyone who desires eternity will survive the asking.
Genre: Mystery