He never meant to want her. He only meant to watch.

Edvard Mullen has lived in shadows for over a century, obeying the family code: don’t get close, don’t get attached, don’t leave a trail. Then Ella Dawn arrives. Quiet, curious, and unafraid, she looks at him like she already knows—and chooses him anyway.

But Ella’s presence doesn’t just shake Edvard. It awakens something darker. Someone older. Marek, a predator who doesn’t follow rules, has decided to hunt what Edvard loves.

To protect Ella, Edvard will have to cross lines he swore he never would. Blood will be spilled. Loyalties tested. And a new rule written in the ashes of the old.

A haunting, slow-burn romance told through Edvard’s eyes, this is not a love story—it’s what survives after everything else burns.