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TO HIM, SHE'S A DREAM. TO HER, HE'S A NIGHTMARE.

Callisto Bane has built her life on revenge. A cunning Shifter and rising force within the rebel ranks, she’s spent years clawing her way to the top with one singular purpose: make the Favoured pay for every life they’ve left to rot by the Blight beyond their gleaming city gates.
For a decade, Dante Drakos has haunted the palace dungeons as the King’s Shadow, slipping into the minds of traitors and extracting secrets in the dark. Once a title of honour, his role has become a gilded prison, each passing year pulling him further from the light. The spreading Blight offers him one final chance at redemption. He believes the cure lies in the deadly Wildlands - but to find it, he’ll need to turn the crown’s most dangerous enemy into his greatest weapon.
By day, they are enemies bound by necessity. By night, Dante walks the fragile landscape of Callisto’s dreams, erasing memories he cannot afford her to carry. Yet her mind is unlike any he has ever entered: untamed, defiant… and achingly alive.
As tension ignites and loyalties fray, falling for each other could mean saving Wynthorne - or condemning it to ruin


The first book in a thrilling new slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy series with razor-sharp banter, political intrigue, and a romance steeped in yearning, perfect for fans of Spark of the Everflame and Quicksilver.

© Josie Bullard 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026