Sometimes, talking to the right person can show you a path out of darkness...but what if that person has been dead for thirty years? Monica should have known better than to remain in New Hope.
Jennifer Dinsmore, editor of The Aphotic series.
Can she find the strength to not only save herself but the lives of all those she\'s ever loved? Can she save her father, three decades in the past? Can she end a cycle born of an aphotic darkness? OMG, I have not been breathing! These pages have been terrible but also beautiful and strangely moving.
In the span of seconds, everything-absolutely everything-Monica thought she knew is turned upside down.
And he knows who she is .
And he answers .
Then, in a fit of pain and anger and grief, she calls the number of the bookstore her father owned, destroyed three decades ago.
More pain, sure, but at least it\'s been dulled by the passage of time.
Her only refuge is her bookstore, The Second-Last Word , which she built on the ashes of the one once owned by her father.
All that possibility...gone.
Who she and Lex could have been.
Who she once was.
Monica knows she\'s pushing her away, but she can\'t just forget her life before, can\'t forget the man he once was, who they once were.
Lex.
Why did she think her life could be anything but pain and sorrow and regret? Why did she think she could just be okay with murdering her ex-husband, even if he was a blood-thirsty werewolf? Why does she think, now, that drowning her sorrows in alcohol is the answer? So much for Lex being the one who needs to her get shit together.
How stupidly optimistic, how naïve, she\'d been.
Sometimes, talking to the right person can show you a path out of darkness...but what if that person has been dead for thirty years? Monica should have known better than to remain in New Hope
