Persephone, an Urban Romantasy

I finally have him. That's supposed to be the good part.

Tallis loves me. He said it out loud, by firelight, like it cost him something to admit. And it should feel like everything I've wanted since the moment he first looked at me like I was worth the trouble.

Instead, it feels like the calm before something worse.

My latest mission takes me deeper into the Underground City than I've ever gone-into the City of Dis, where heretics and sinners burn for eternity in their crypts, and where the line between "soul I'm supposed to rescue" and "thing I should be running from" gets very, very blurry.

I should be focused on the job. Bill's foul mouth and Tallis's silent brooding should be more than enough to keep me occupied. But Alaire hasn't forgotten about me, and Alaire doesn't lose gracefully.

What starts as one more mission turns into something I don't have words for yet: a darkness creeping in at the edges of my own thoughts, a pull I can't explain and don't fully recognize as mine. The version of me that's supposed to be falling in love with Tallis is still in here somewhere. I just don't know for how much longer.

Because the closer Alaire gets to what he actually wants, the less certain I am that I'll be the one making the choice when it happens.

This journey could tear us apart... literally. And whatever's waiting for me at the end of it might not be a battle I can win with a sword.

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The saga continues in Book Five: The Bladesmith, told from Tallis's point of view.