Circuits and Starlight

Fae princess Aliana Grace does not ask for help. She has spent her entire life being the help — the steady one, the capable one, the daughter who swallowed her fear and her magic both and smiled through it. She is very good at it. She has never once let anyone close enough to notice the cost.

Kyan Darkmore is not going to be the one who does.

The human heir to the most powerful tech empire in the city has a talent for two things: solving impossible problems and making sure no one ever matters enough to use against him. He's charming, he's brilliant, and he is extraordinarily good at leaving before anything gets complicated.

Unfortunately for both of them, the ancient force consuming the Veil from the inside out doesn't care about their preferences. With a grief-hollowed king tearing through the border between their worlds and two cities on the edge of extinction, Aliana and Kyan are out of options and out of time.

They don't trust each other.

They don't particularly like each other.

And the closer this alliance forces them, the more they both suspect that the thing they're really afraid of has nothing to do with the enemy at the gates. Some threats can be survived. Some people can't be unfelt.