Some bonds cannot be broken. Some connections should never have been made.
Kimberly Gray has always felt drawn to the ancient forest surrounding her family's farm—to the towering Keeper Tree, to the pond where silence listens, to something vast and patient that seems to be waiting. When she was five years old, something found her in those woods. Something that has watched over her ever since.
Nicholas Stillwater is older than memory itself. For five thousand years, he has walked between worlds, taking the most beautiful moments from human minds and leaving behind dreams so sweet they become addiction. He was never meant to stay. Never meant to care. Never meant to become bound by a silver thread to a mortal woman who carries a portal in her body and a mystery in her blood.
Now Kimberly is thirty, and the thread that connects them is pulling taut. The Third Dream calls to Nicholas—a final transformation that would complete what he was made for. But to reach it, he must pass through her.
And she must choose: let him go into the light alone, or follow him into a dream from which there is no waking.
A dark mythic fantasy of memory, longing, and the impossible space between human and eternal.
