A tower. A young woman with golden hair. And a life hidden from the rest of the world.

Alora has known nothing beyond the forest and the protection of an enchantress everyone seems to fear. Longing for a world she has only encountered through books and stories, she sees in Sol the possibility of everything she has been denied. What begins as an unlikely friendship soon becomes something neither is prepared to surrender.

Yet the forest is not the only place where dangerous things dwell.

Within the walls of a nobleman’s estate, old grievances have never been forgotten. A prisoner bound by an ancient collar knows the price of disobedience, while a warden burdened by duty struggles with the consequences of a past he cannot change.

As all of their lives become entangled, the fragile peace in the Dreary begins to unravel, drawing Sol into a struggle shaped by secrets, obsession, and choices made long before he ever entered the forest—while raising questions about his own true nature that he may not be ready to face.

For there are many things worth fearing in Amatira.

And not all of them are monsters.