I woke up with no memory and a child growing in my belly.
The kind healer calls me Elif, and the handsome merchant Sinan looks at me like I'm his salvation. I should be grateful for this peaceful life, for gentle touches and soft words. But my dreams are full of dark eyes and consuming darkness. My hands know how to kill even when my mind doesn't remember why. And when the Shadow Lord comes for me—claiming I'm his wife, his property, his obsession—my body recognizes what my heart has forgotten. He says I belong to him. He says I'm carrying his heir. He says I fled from him once, but he'll never let me go again. I don't remember loving him. But when he touches me, I burn. When he commands me, I obey. And when he takes me back to his realm of shadows and sin, I realize the most terrifying truth of all: I want to remember why I was his. Even if it destroys the woman I've become.
