BORROWED LIGHT (WORKING TITLE)
when Selene's twin brother Sol is taken in the night, everyone tells her he's dead. she knows he isn't — she can feel him, the way she's always felt the living world breathing around her.
she has spent her life hiding what she is. in a kingdom that hunts people like her, saving Sol means revealing herself to those she has been hiding from.
Teo has been Sol's best friend since before Selene can remember. he's been hers too — in the way neither of them ever let themselves name. the boy she grew up with is now a man she barely recognizes, wearing the queen's uniform with something in his eyes that wasn't there before. something imposed and wrong.
she has learned how to live without admitting what she needs most. she has no idea what to do with wanting him — not when she can't be certain his feelings for her are entirely his own.
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an adult slow burn romantasy about the cost of hiding who you are, the kind of love that survives being weaponized, and what it means to fight for someone who doesn't know you're fighting for them.