Claire
Everything we’d been through was enough to send me running, but Mason refused to give up on us. He told me what would happen if he won this war. I understood the position he would take and the things he would be required to do. I accepted it, loving him enough not to care about that burden.
But was I prepared for what would happen if he lost?
There was an entire future I never dared to consider, one he had warned me about from the beginning. His past coming back to haunt me. Would I escape with my life this time?
Mason
I spent a lot of time fighting the darker parts of myself, rifling through different sanitized versions to find one I could tolerate. Nothing ever fit until I found Claire, and then everything fell apart.
In the face of all that tragedy, I found the life I wanted. All I had to do was take this city for myself so the woman I loved could be safe.
I didn’t know it had already been taken.
With all of my efforts pointed in the wrong direction, could I defeat an enemy I didn’t know I had?