"I can fix him."
"Yeah? Well, I can join him, and we can both be so much worse."

BRIGHTON

I've spent my life surviving monsters. Now I have to become one.

Kier comes back to me every night smelling of blood and haunted by secrets — a ghost wearing the body of the man I’m falling for. He shields me from the rot he wades through, and for a while, I'm content to hide in his shadow.

Then they lead him away in handcuffs, and I realize two things at once: I am unbearably in love with Kier Blackwood, and I will burn everything down to get him back.

He thinks he's the only one who can walk through fire for the people he loves. He forgot I've already been to hell. The men responsible have money and power but they underestimate how far I'm willing to go.

I’m done being the girl things happen to. If the price of freedom is my soul, I’ll swallow the pomegranate seeds and reign with him in the dark.

KIER

My brother is dead. The men who killed him are still breathing.

That's a problem I intend to fix.

I follow Raff's footsteps into an underground fighting ring where competitors disappear once they're in too deep. I'm losing myself one fight at a time, trading pieces of my soul for proximity to the truth. By the time I realize the trap has closed around me, it's already too late.

They're not above using Brighton to keep me compliant. She's the only thing that makes me weak, and they know it. So I do what I have to. I lie to her face. I rot in this cell. I'll make her hate me if that's what keeps her alive.

But she won’t stay in the light where I left her.

The monsters think she's my weakness. They don't realize she's the match that's going to light this entire city on fire.

My Persephone is on her way.
And she's bringing hell with her.

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