Arya was never meant to belong here. Cursed, hunted, and bound to a power that can raise the dead, she has spent her life running - from the enemies who want her destroyed, and from the truth of what she is. But secrets have a way of surfacing, and when her husband stumbles into her darkest power, the fragile peace they’ve built begins to unravel.

Karim thought marriage was routine until the night he learned his wife wasn’t just human. Now, as portals rip open and monsters spill across Earth, he finds himself standing on the front lines of a war he doesn’t understand - one he must survive if the world he knows is to remain standing.

But Arya’s battle is no less perilous. Dragged back toward the realm she’s tried to escape, she must face the demons of her past and the curse that has defined her existence. Victory means freedom. Failure means losing not just herself, but the family she’s finally begun to call her own.

As Earth teeters on the brink and old enemies rise from the shadows, husband and wife will have to fight two wars: one for the world’s survival, and one for their own souls.

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I've been watching the woman in front of me for a long time now. There's still no sign of Arya.


The woman in front of me stirs. Her eyes slide open.


The initial confusion I see there changes to frustration.


She tugs her hands violently against the rope in a futile attempt to free herself - my knot-tying skill is one of a kind.


"Tell her she's making a huge mistake. The woman she's trying to save is dead. Gone! I'm not Arigana. Arigana died and will never come back".


"You can tell her that when you see her. If it were up to me, your body would have been among the ones being incinerated right now. I don't understand her need to save everybody - even the ones that are clearly hopeless."


Her eyes flare momentarily. I notice her fingers tightening as she struggles to control her temper.


Chapter 76 - By a thread.