This wouldn’t end well-not when we were surrounded by people and he was looking at me like that, but I couldn’t make myself leave. He stopped, lips parting as if the mere sight of me had rendered him incapable of doing anything else.
The lights in the ballroom caught each ripple in the fabric so that, with every step, I looked like I was blooming from fire. My hair was down, silky around my shoulders like the petals of an exotic flower. Those left standing will discover if love is truly greater than Fate.RED SILK CLUNG TO MY HIPS, TWISTING INTO A TIGHT bodice that accentuated my curves. Once the gods have revealed themselves, unleashing their wrath, lives will be irrevocably changed. One has been lying to her since the beginning.
But as her birthday draws near, her entire world shatters with a startling revelation and she's caught between love and Fate. If that's not freaky enough, whenever Alex and Seth spend time "training"-which really is just Seth's code word for some up-close and personal one-on-one time-she ends up with another mark of the Apollyon, which brings her one step closer to Awakening ahead of schedule.
A long-forgotten, fanatical order is out to kill her, and if the Council ever discovers what she did in the Catskills, she's a goner. Alexandria isn't sure she's going to make it to her eighteenth birthday-to her Awakening. Originally published November 2012 Now includes bonus novella ELIXIR History is on repeat, and things didn't go so well the last time.
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