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The last time Audrey Saunders saw Jude Bellessi, he begged her to ditch her wedding and run off with him. She said no. In her defense, she was already in the dress. Years later—divorced and done with relationships—Audrey runs right into the one man she never managed to forget. Except Jude isn’t the rebellious bad boy she remembers. Now Jude's an aerospace engineer, a fiercely protective single dad… and, apparently, her fiancé. At least that’s the story he spun for his sick mother. When Jude asks her to play along for the summer, Audrey knows better. She really does.

I went to Thornholm for my parents. I left with a four-year-old who shouldn’t exist, a plague at the heart of the celestial world, and a weapon designed to sever the sky. The Velthara cascade left two hundred stolen frequencies pressing against the walls of my void and a structural thinning the second verse keeps reaching for. Every session takes a little more. Every night the prophecy gets closer to collecting. The Voidborn must stand at the center of all thirteen and choose. Hold the light, or hold her life. I refuse to choose. So we steal a fortress. Thornholm—OBSIDIAN-7. The ...