When a ruthless killer targets her home planet, seventeen-year-old Linuka Hinloé is left alone among the ruins—grieving and desperate for answers. Determined to find the one responsible, she sets out across the stars, chasing a threat she barely understands. She must uncover who—and what—she truly is… before another world crumbles.

Book 1 of the Detective Hardwick Crime Series. When a brilliant scientist turns grief into a deadly experiment, Detective Hardwick and his team have just 36 hours to stop him before another city pays the price. Every clue matters...because if they don't stop him, only the victims pay.

Writing can be deadly—especially if you're a book thief.

In a post-apocolyptic Edinburgh, vampires rule the day and night. The heir to the vampire throne, Riley, works closely with her mother to prepare herself for the role. However, her view on the vampire clan and the world more generally changes when she meets a group of humans outside the castle grounds.