The rules are don't get attached, don't get caught, don't let anyone close enough to notice when something's wrong.
Nadia Voss has broken all three in the span of two weeks.
The shadow court's sentence was expected. So was the price on her head. But being stranded on horseback with Lorenzo Veyne—Kieran's rigid, rule-obsessed, devastatingly competent eldest brother—was not part of any plan she would have made willingly. Neither was losing access to the deep shadows, the one place in all the world that had ever felt like home.
She has no intention of telling him that.
Except Enzo notices everything. And the closer they get to Tharros—where traitors wear trusted faces and the conspiracy runs deeper than anyone knew—the harder it becomes to hide the things she's been carrying alone.
He calls it a strategic liability. She calls it none of his business.
By the time the walls come down, neither of them has a word for what it actually is.
Annie Anderson is the author of the international bestselling Rogue Ethereal series. A United States Air Force veteran, Annie pens fast-paced Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy novels filled with strong, snarky heroines and a boatload of magic. When she takes a break from writing, she can be found binge-watching The Magicians, flirting with her husband, wrangling children, or bribing her cantankerous dogs to go on a walk.