Tethered by fate
A concealed war shapes the world, even as ordinary people move through crowded cities, quiet villages, and fortified military bases with no knowledge of the forces battling around them. Hidden behind the work of governments and agencies, the ancient order known as Via Lucis fights to keep darkness from overtaking humanity. Their warriors, born with celestial power, walk among mortals as officers, agents, and soldiers. They appear ordinary, yet every heartbeat is a vow to guard the fragile balance between light and shadow.
Captain Tiffany Luna Clark stands at the center of this unseen conflict. Revered and feared, she commands with precision and carries the rarest gift among the warriors of light. Golden energy forms wings at her back, marking her as the strongest of her generation. To the Scottish Army, she is a brilliant and uncompromising officer. To Via Lucis, she is their shield. To the darkness, she is the one target they must break.
Her world begins to tilt when William Luxon enters her orbit once more. Brilliant, fast moving, and impossible to control, he crosses continents in the search for the Golden Girl foretold by the immortal Gordon himself. He tracks supernatural disturbances from Sri Lanka to France to the frozen edges of the UK, always a step ahead of the shadows and always one step behind the truth. His mission drives him forward, yet grief follows him like a second shadow. He still mourns the girl he believed died at the age of six, his childhood companion, the one he once swore to protect.
He does not know that the Golden Girl is the same friend he lost. Nine years stolen in a lab fractured his identity, reshaped his name, and left him to rise again under the world’s gaze. William’s new face and new life hide the truth even from Tiffany. When he finally crosses paths with her on the base, the shock of recognition hits him alone. She looks at him with the fierce indifference of a commander, unaware of who he truly is. He sees the girl he once lost. She sees only an infuriating man who disrespects her authority at every turn.
While Tiffany grapples with this relentless intruder in her military world, a darker force begins its return. Antonio, a Nightcrawler whose black wings carry the weight of a thousand lost souls, hunts for her under Gordon’s command. Their history is tangled with betrayal and temptation, their powers matched in dangerous symmetry. Antonio plays his deadly game across cities and battlefields, determined to ensnare Tiffany in the trap he calls The Joker and The Queen. Each move is calculated. Each encounter pushes her closer to danger.
Unbeknownst to Antonio, William shadows Tiffany across the growing storm. He slips through ruins and crowded streets, intervening at moments she never notices, steering her out of harm’s reach. His loyalty becomes the silent line Antonio cannot break. His presence threads through the darkness as a quiet promise to the girl he knew, even if she no longer remembers their bond.
When their paths collide in a series of violent confrontations, the past forces itself into the present. Tiffany and William stand together against threats that strike at their shared destiny, even as the truth of their intertwined lives rises toward revelation. Loyalties shift, ancient feuds awaken, and Tiffany’s power becomes both weapon and burden.
Antonio’s fall only marks the beginning. As the world trembles beneath the weight of new secrets, Tiffany and William must step forward as one. Their bond, once shattered by time and tragedy, grows into a force capable of reshaping the war itself.
