Phoenix Falling

Her name tells me everything I need to know about pursuing her. Risk. And yet my phoenix — and my heart — refuse to walk away.

Sun

I was raised in the shadow of the king, expected to perform but never expecting to ascend to the throne. The only thing I've cared about in my centuries-long life is protecting my people, even if it means going up against my own father.

The weight of so many lives in my hands is eased by only one thing: being with her. But I can never make her mine, no matter how much my animal and my soul cry out to possess her.

Risk

My life changed forever the night a monster followed me home. My family died, and I...well, I was never the same. I made it my mission to find others like me, to protect them, to help them find themselves when everything they knew disappeared like smoke.

And I failed. I can do my part, but only the inhuman Sun and his...