The Illusions of Eventide

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The House of Crimson & Clover continues in the third volume The Illusions of Eventide.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The mystic awakens.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nicolas' life is painted by betrayal.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Stinging disloyalty from the two people he loves most leads to overwhelming loss and an existence devoid of purpose.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He takes a note out of Ana's playbook and flees the pain ending up at his family's holiday home in the Gulf of Mexico.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Instead of solitude he finds Mercy a breathtaking woman with many layers of secrets and a stubborn refusal to answer any of his reasonable questions.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mercy needs Nicolas but he can never know the truth: that she is not a woman at all but a being thousands of years old at the end of a journey she needs his unwitting help to complete.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But in her presence Nicolas' own dormant magic starts to surface.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Magic he was never supposed to get back.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Magic that awakens beings more ancient-and dangerous-than Mercy.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p>