He defied nine centuries of his own kind to keep her. Now the bill has come due - and he intends to pay it with his life.
Adrienne Hart knows the truth now.
She knows the man who appears in her Tribeca apartment is not a man. She knows he was sent to consume her soul, slowly, across the length of a life she never knew she'd signed away. She knows he defected - that he chose her over nine centuries of the work he was made for. And for one stolen autumn, that was almost enough.
Then the notice arrives, written in a script no human hand could form, on paper older than paper. Cassian has been recalled. Her soul has been reassigned to another. And the date of her harvest has been moved forward - eight weeks, and counting.
The office that owns her is not a court. Its laws are not written for human eyes, and the price of misreading them is not a lost motion but a lost self. But Adrienne Hart has spent her life being underestimated by powerful things that mistook her composure for softness, and she has one weapon her ancient enemies never thought to fear: she reads the fine print. If there is a flaw in the contract for her soul, she will find it. If there is a door, she will open it.
What she does not know is that Cassian has already found the price of her freedom - and has decided to pay it himself, in secret, with the one thing he has left to give. To save her, he will cross a line his kind reserves their cruelest fate for. To save her, he is prepared to be erased.
To save him, Adrienne will have to do the one thing more dangerous than reading the contract.
She'll have to walk into a room full of immortal enemies, on their own ground, and make them an offer.
The Quiet Hours is the second novel of
The Archon Series, a dark contemporary paranormal romance set in the shadows of modern New York. The slow burn of Book One becomes an open flame: the heat is higher, the hero is hungrier, and the thing he becomes when he finally stops holding back is no longer entirely human.
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