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Realm of Shadows
The Summer I Turned Pretty meets A Court of Thorns and Roses in this slow-burn, best-friends-to-lovers Hades & Persephone retelling from bestselling author Rektok Ross.
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I’ve been secretly in love with my best friend for years. The only problem? I have no idea who he really is…
Hayden Vassilios has always been my steady constant. The only person who’s ever really seen me in a world where I’ve never quite fit in. To me, he’s everything. But to everyone else, he’s untouchable. Campus golden boy. Football god. The guy everyone wants, and no one can have.
Including me… because he’s also my sister’s ex.
I’ve spent years pretending I don’t care that I’ll never be the one he chooses. Pretending I don’t still love him anyway. But when a buried family secret about my long-lost, deadbeat dad begins to unravel, everything changes.
The crazy stories my mother used to whisper to me as a child—myths about ancient bloodlines and a hidden world beneath ours—start to feel less like delusion and more like warning. Something old and powerful is awakening. And the closer I get to the truth, the more impossible it becomes to ignore one terrifying reality:
Whatever is happening… Hayden is at the center of it all.
I always told myself he was safe.
I was wrong.
Because Hayden isn’t who I thought he was. Something about him doesn’t make sense—the way he always knows more than he should, the way he watches over me like he’s protecting me from some danger I’m not supposed to see. It turns out he’s been keeping dark secrets from me. And if I find out what he really is, it won’t just break my heart. It could ignite a war. Now I have a choice: walk away… or step into the shadows and risk everything for a love that was never meant to be mine.
Realm of Shadows is a slow-burn, best-friends-to-lovers romance packed with intense yearning, forbidden love, and a supernatural revelation that will change everything. This is the explosive first book in a captivating new romantasy series.
Tropes You’ll Find in This Book:
• Hades x Persephone myth in a modern college setting
• Shadow prince who would burn the world for her
• Slow burn with intense yearning and pining
• Childhood best friends to lovers
• Forbidden love
• Gothic Underworld vibes
• Fated destiny & secret identity
Realm of Shadows
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