The Shadow's Price for a Heart: A Love Forged in Shadow and Sacrifice

In a city of two faces, his art was his only voice. Her hunger was her only secret.Leo is an orphan invisible to the glittering, futuristic city of Aethelburg. A charcoal artist living in a forgotten attic, he is haunted by a poverty so deep it has leeched the color from his world. His only sustenance is the desperate hope that his art might one day be his salvation. When his last masterpiece is destroyed and his hope shatters, the raw, soul-crushing despair that follows acts as a beacon in the darkness.Lyra is a creature of shadow and twilight, exiled from Gehenna, a realm of silent embers and absolute order. Her crime: feeling empathy. Cast into the chaotic human world, she is fading, starving for the emotional energy that is her lifeblood. Drawn by the potent flare of Leo's grief, she appears in his attic-a beautiful, terrifying secret who offers a reprieve from his pain.Their connection is immediate, powerful, and forbidden. As Lyra feeds on the vibrant hope and joy she discovers in Leo, his own life and art begin to flourish with a magical intensity. He sees a muse, a miracle. She finds a light in the darkness, a warmth she never knew could exist.But their fragile sanctuary cannot last. Her presence has not gone unnoticed. Kael, a merciless Warden from her home world, has been dispatched to Aethelburg. A being of cold logic and absolute law, Kael sees their bond not as love, but as a perversion-an error to be corrected, an anomaly to be erased. He will stop at nothing to return Lyra to the eternal twilight she fled.Caught between a timeless hunter and the dangerous ambitions of the human world, Leo and Lyra must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice for a love that was doomed from the start. To protect her, he must embrace the darkness. To save him, she must risk becoming the monster she was exiled for being."The Shadow's Price for a Heart" is a sweeping dark fantasy romance about a love that defies two worlds. Perfect for fans of epic stakes, forbidden magic, and stories that explore the price of hope in a world shrouded in shadow

• | Author: Jaswin Ram
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Aug 10, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 90 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-13: 9798297394834