If You Know You Know

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>She taught Elle everything she knows. But not everything she hid.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>She was told the mystic saved her. Raised her. Loved her.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>None of it was true.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Elle has always trusted her instincts until they began leading her in circles. Raised by a mysterious mystic woman known as The Countess Elle grew up in a world of rituals secrets and carefully controlled truths. The mystic claimed to be her mother. But she's not. She's something far more powerful... and far more dangerous.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Trapped in a web of time-warping magic Elle begins to unravel the lies that shaped her life. As memories fracture and realities shift she discovers that her so-called mother has been using her for years. Feeding off Elle's innate intuition to fuel her own dark magic.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Now pursued by creatures who belong to no single realm: vampires hunting in shadows fae whispering secrets from behind mirrors reptilian beings with ancient grudges and demons lurking just out of sight. Elle must reclaim her identity before she disappears into one of the mystic's illusions forever.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>But breaking free isn't just about escape. It's about becoming the force she was never meant to be.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Elle full of quiet power and a heart that won't shut off. The Countess born from a wound so old it became wisdom. They orbit each other like ancient moons that forgot they once shared a sun. And every time they meet there's a choice:</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Love or freedom; Dark or light.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Elle full of quiet power and a heart that won't shut off. The Countess born from a wound so old it became wisdom. They orbit each other like ancient moons that forgot they once shared a sun. And every time they meet there's a choice:</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Love or freedom; Dark or light.</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>A novel by Melissa Skene</em></p><p></p>