Ariel N. Anderson

"Everyone dies. And one day, when it's your time, your memories of me will die with you. But for me? I'll carry you with me for the rest of my miserable eternity."A god amongst his race, and a tyrant to others, Kaius Voroninov has only one desire in the Mortality. When whispers in the dark begin to speak of Kaius holding the cursebreaker prisoner in his Obsidian Palace, discontent festers among his once loyal subjects. Dark forces control his fate, and his mortality is not the only thing Adelasia LeMasters unknowingly hides within her soul. A thousand years of bloodlust has left him cruel and merciless, but Kaius must face the dreadful reality that vampirism has never been his true curse. It’s always been her. It will always be her.

Seventeen years after the events in Under Your Scars, Caroline makes her yearly visit to Meridian City and is taken on a heartbreaking and bittersweet journey that gives her something she's been searching for her entire life: closure. This is a sequel novella to Under Your Scars: A Dark Romance Novel, and the series must be read in order.

"If you're so concerned about my humanity, Elena, then reach into my soul and find it, because I'm not sure I have any left." According to the FBI, I was considered a serial murderer after three kills. What do they call me after fifty-two? They call me the Silencer. One final bullet would have been all it took to stop me from taking another soul, and I would have been doing Meridian City a service by pulling that trigger. An angel crying for help stopped me, and that night, I took three lives for her. Then three turned into eight. Then eight turned into twenty. Twenty turned into twenty-one. Twenty one turned into twenty-three. Elena Young is the hero in my story, but I’m the villain in hers. And this is the kind of story where the villain gets the girl, even if it kills her. This is a dark romance novel intended for mature readers only. Please check trigger/content warnings.