Veil of Death and Shadow (Order of Reapers Book 1)

A gritty post-apocalyptic urban fantasy set in a fractured Seattle, where vampires and werewolves brawl in the streets, demonic cults vie for power, and humans do anything they can to stay alive.

Mareena is no stranger to death. It’s been her constant companion. A curse that steals everyone she loves. So, she does not do love. She does not do attachment. She does not even do hugs—not really.

What Mareena does is survive. She runs a diner for the community that adopted her, watches over a grumpy old man she refuses to call family, and shares an apartment with the one person on earth stubborn enough to love her back (and the undead crow they can’t seem to shake). But when a sardonic guardian from the afterlife shows up, claiming that she’s his new charge, Mareena has to stop surviving and start fighting.

Kieran is tethered to her by fate, devastatingly beautiful, and completely forbidden. He’s also the same man who saved her the day the world tore open. The same man she broke every rule for, one reckless night at a demon club. The only man who has ever made her feel like the curse she carries might not be a death sentence after all.

The apocalypse didn’t break her. He might.

But Kieran isn’t the only one tethered to Mareena. The man with amber eyes she’s been running from since childhood is no longer content to wait in the dark. And whatever power has been sleeping inside Mareena since the day the world split is waking up hungry.

With Seattle cracking open at the seams, her best friend missing, a bounty circling through the demon underworld, and a reaper with a grudge following them both, she’s running out of time to pretend she doesn’t need anyone.

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