The Heir of Light and Shadows

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lizzie Degan wants a quiet life. She's in grad school works tavern shifts and has a handsome mysterious boyfriend. But her world is </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>fracturing</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Her boyfriend's jealousy is turning possessive and an alluring stranger shadows her every step.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Brody Woods is the ex-agent hired to stand between Lizzie and two very different predators: the Baker crime family who will kill to get their hands on Lizzie's unclaimed inheritance and something older... the </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Shadow Fae</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> who want something from that inheritance too. A pendant that isn't just a precious jewel. It stores ancient magic and is steeped in prophecy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Brody's orders are simple:</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> blend in keep her alive never let her learn who she really is.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Falling for her wasn't in the contract. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wanting her...was forbidden.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> But every touch ignites a fated pull that no force not even from another world could sever.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When the lies finally shatter Lizzie will have to decide: Will she stay in the human world that she's spent her whole life proving she belongs in? Or will she step through the portal and claim the power that will either save her or destroy every remaining piece of the woman she used to be?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Slow-burn romantasy for readers who want the magic to start in the real world and end with a door that seals off the hope of ever living an ordinary life again.</strong></p>