We thought the worst was behind us.

After everything the Bond took, changed, and awakened, I wanted one impossible thing:

A life.

University. A future. A chance to love Nathan Newcomb without every breath feeling like it belonged to a war we never asked to fight.

But peace was never promised to us.

It was only waiting to be stolen.

When Nathan’s family is struck at its heart, he leaves to bring one of their own home. And while he is gone, the darkness that has been circling us finally finds me.

This time, the threat is not distance.

It is captivity.

Pain.

Months of silence.

A warning written through everyone we love.

And demons that do not need their own bodies to hurt us.

Every warning we missed begins to make sense. Every strange piece of our story starts fitting together. The reaper knives. The hands marked by death. The darkness watching from the edges.

Nathan and I were never only bonded.

We were promised.

And everything that wants what we carry is willing to wear the faces of the living and the dead to claim it.

Because some prophecies do not come true gently.

Some fall like tears.

Some stain everything.

COHERE: Stains of the Fallen Tears is Book Three of The Sephlem Trials, a dark paranormal romance and supernatural family saga featuring a possessive fated bond, demon-touched bloodlines, prophecy, demonic possession, captivity, devastating loss, and a love story where hope may be the cruelest thing left to lose.