K.T. Martin

He came to claim her soul. She claimed his heart instead.

She wasn’t supposed to die.

When Soraya Peterman dies, she expects peace. Instead, her soul tears into Faelora-a realm of shadows and magic where she’s invisible to the living and reapers hunt anomalies like her. She’s the soul that shouldn’t exist, and every moment she lingers is borrowed time.

They call him Death.

Rhyker is the afterlife’s most ruthless weapon. Cold. Efficient. Merciless. He’s harvested tens of thousands of souls without blinking. Then he’s sent to erase the impossible girl who defies the rules of existence-and she looks at him like he’s salvation, not destruction.

For one catastrophic heartbeat, he hesitates.

And everything changes.

To save her, they must solve her murder.

To keep her from oblivion and give her peace, Rhyker shatters every law binding his kind-risking his own soul for the girl who makes him burn for the first time in centuries. Together, they race through ancient secrets and fae court politics, following deadly clues to the truth behind her death. But the deeper they dig, the closer they grow-and the harder it becomes to ignore the forbidden bond blazing between them.

A bond that could save everything... or destroy them both.

Ideal for fans of slow-burn tension that ignites, soul-deep connections, shadow daddies with soft spots, forbidden romance that defies realms, and heroines who make death himself question everything.