Lovely Timms sold her soul to return to the man she loves. But the time slip between worlds has left the enigmatic Ferryman seared into her very being.
Charged with a mission of vengeance, she becomes a threat to the living world she fought so hard to return to. But the Underworld she left behind is now a city ravaged by wraiths, its devastation blamed on her by the Ferryman who haunts her thoughts. The living world holds everything she once desired, yet the Underworld needs her. Will her heart choose the living—or the dead?
She of the Shadows is the gripping finale to The Darkness Duet, following Daughter of the Drowned. Perfect for fans of Ninth House and Krystal Sutherland, this dark romantic fantasy blends horror, irresistible forced proximity, and the magic of "she falls first, but he falls harder."
Tilting my face, I’m glad of the rain even though it evanesces into the ether from the heat on my skin. Through the gloom of the sky, the moon is a scythe tonight, a fitting omen of my mission. Dirt clings to the soles of my feet, which move on instinct, following an invisible path. With every step I’m surer of what I must do. Images of teeth and bone and scalpels flash in my mind, though no longer accompanied by my agony anymore. Kane’s deep growls of satisfaction will soon rumble through the streets of the City of the Dead. The notion of it sets goose bumps firing over my skin.
Unbothered by fatigue or hunger, I walk into the night. Under the cloak of darkness, I spread my wings, arching my back as a cat would shake off a nap. The earth reeks of dampness following the rain, yet the air crackles with the possibility of what is about to happen as my feet hit soft grass and I set my eye on the low-lying structure before me.
A menace in itself, all beige on beige, brick and barbed wire. A place with one sole purpose: to protect the world from those it houses. It’s not without a hint of irony that I stalk up to the building, seeking my way in, bringing a harbinger of doom to one of its inmates.
I pause slightly at the sign near the main entrance informing me I’ve arrived at HMP Long Lartin. Home to some of Britain’s worst. My Fury instincts simmer in my blood, Alecto’s fiery rage telling me to burn, burn, burn.
A broken young woman will stop at nothing to discover why she’s being haunted, even if that means storming the Underworld to face off with Death himself.Twenty-one-year-old Lovely Timms hasn’t always been afflicted with otherworldly visions; in fact, it’s only these last four years that have been a haze of addiction and denial since she drowned.
Only when she’s visited by an apparition of her father does she finally begin to believe her hauntings are real. Desperate to discover why she is plagued by the dead, she travels to the occult-filled city of New Orleans with childhood best friend, Tino, by her side. Though, as her abilities grow, so does the icy herald of Death.
Death with a face, a name, and a delicious voice with which to beckon her.
Death calls to Lovely, will he get to keep her?
Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and V.E Schwab, those who like their romantic fantasy with a side of gore, childhood friends to lovers, Death as a love interest, and their romance with more steam and less spice.
Kerry Williams is a UK author based in the heart of England and writer of romantic fantasy novels. Copywriter by day, she gets lost in a world of magic at night, either in her writing or in what she reads. Her creative roots were cultivated by the writing of the unforgettable Anne Rice, she also adores the work of Erin Morgenstern, Holly Black, Judy I. Lin, and Rachel Griffin to name a few. These days you will often find her with her nose buried in a romantic fantasy book.
She graduated from Brunel University with a 2:1(hons) in Creative Writing. She is an avid cat lady, die-hard tea drinker, and eternal star gazer. Always known to her family as a daydreamer, she and her young daughter, Ivy, can often be found looking at the moon.
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