Hidden Deep Book 1 of the Hidden Saga

<p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>HE ISN'T SUPPOSED TO EVEN TALK TO A HUMAN... MUCH LESS FALL IN LOVE WITH ONE.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Sixteen-year-old Ryann Carroll has just run into the guy who saved her life ten years ago. </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>You might think she'd be happy to see him again. Not exactly. She's a bit underdressed (as in skinny-dipping) and he's ...not supposed to exist.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>After her father's affair all Ryann wants is to escape the family implosion fallout and find a little peace. She also wouldn't mind a first date that didn't suck but she's determined not to end up like her mom: vulnerable betrayed destroyed. Ryann's just moved into her grandma's house in rural Mississippi the same place where ten years earlier she became lost in the woods overnight and nearly died.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>She's still irresistibly drawn to those woods. There she encounters the boy who kept her from freezing to death that long ago winter night and was nowhere to be seen when rescuers arrived. He's still mysterious but now all grown-up and gorgeous too. And the more she's with him the greater the threat he poses to Ryann's strict policy-- never want someone more than he wants you.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Seventeen-year-old Lad knows the law of his people all too well: Don't get careless and Don't get caught.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>It's allowed his race to live undetected in this world for thousands of years mentioned only in flawed and fading folklore. Lad's never been able to forget about Ryann since that night ten years ago. When he sees her again his fascination re-ignites and becomes a growing desire that tempts him to break all the rules. He's not even supposed to talk to a human much less fall in love with one.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>And the timing is atrocious.</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> The Assemblage is coming the rift between the Light and Dark is widening. Lad may have to trade his own chance at happiness to keep the humans especially Ryann blissfully ignorant and safe.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>