The Blighted Throne
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"Loving him could save her—or drag her into the dark with him."
Eighteen-year-old Winter Vale Johnson has always felt like a ghost drifting through the chaos of the city, too quiet, too intense, too sensitive for the neon-lit world around her. After clawing her way out of a manipulative relationship with her ex, Eric, she’s left raw and wary, unsure if real connection even exists in a place that never stops moving. But then comes Tristan Edwards, sharp-tongued, soft-eyed, and undeniably haunted.
Tristan isn’t just another brooding boy with scars and secrets. There’s something strange about him, an edge beneath his quiet, a red glow behind his eyes. He doesn’t talk about his past, not really. But Winter sees it anyway. The violence he hides. The guilt he carries. The way he watches himself like he’s afraid of what he might become.
As their connection deepens in flashes of club lights and breathless late-night walks, Winter begins to feel seen, wanted, maybe even whole. But the deeper she falls, the more she notices cracks in Tristan’s story. Shadows that don’t match the light. Cursed with a power he can’t control and a past that refuses to die, Tristan is bound to a darkness that’s slowly consuming him from the inside out. And Winter may be the only thing keeping him from slipping over the edge, or the one who finally sets him free.