A love carved in shadow, and remembered in blood.
Taken By Darkness
In the ash-stained land of Toorst, Constance Beausoleil believed herself ordinary—destined to marry for safety or be banished to the workhouse. But when a masked stranger presses an enchanted dagger into her hand, and she spills forbidden blood, the fragile veil between worlds trembles.
Below lies Maalvaith, the shadow of the human world—a realm of decay and memory, where prophecy stirs and the land and creatures in it ache for balance. Taken captive by its cruel prince for her transgression, Constance feels a presence moving through the dark around her… a voice that knows her, that calls her name as if from another life.
It speaks to her in dreams. It watches when she wakes. It feels like hunger, and home, protection- and love that never died.
And when the truth finally finds her, she will understand— that in Maalvaith, the darkness is not what she should fear. It’s what she was always meant to become.
To get home, she must travel deeper into the shadow of the human world.
For Constance, the only way out is through. And while all she wants is to go home, she learns that the prophecy everyone keeps whispering about is more central to her than she once thought- and without fulfilling it, there is no home for her.
