Beyond The Veil (The Elorien Codex)

She has no name, no past, and no idea that the realm waiting beyond the veil has been hunting her for centuries.

Ila has built her life around unanswered questions. Discovered unconscious by a river with nothing but fragmented visions and a hollow ache where her memories should be, she's long since learned to outrun the emptiness. A solo escape to a sun-soaked tropical paradise seems like exactly the reset she needs — until the world tears open and swallows her whole.

What waits on the other side is nothing like paradise. In the dark, breathtaking realm of Elorien, impossible creatures move through ancient shadows, and buried histories carry teeth. Worse, the brooding, terrifyingly powerful being who claims dominion over this world isn't surprised to see her. He's been waiting.

He is everything she should fear — ruthless, ancient, and disturbingly certain that she belongs to him in ways she doesn't yet understand. She is everything he resents — a disruption to a carefully maintained order, a complication wrapped in a mystery he didn't ask to solve. Their hostility crackles with something neither of them wants to name.

But the truth of Ila's origin is more dangerous than either of them anticipated, and the darkness closing in doesn't distinguish between enemies or lovers.

*Beyond The Veil* is a lush, viscer