Your husband isn't merely handsome—he is the kind of man you once thought you could only dream of finding.

Considerate, generous, attentive, funny, and deeply sensitive, he has never allowed the years of marriage to turn your relationship into something ordinary. Even after all this time, he still courts you as though he were trying to win your heart for the very first time, always finding new ways to make you smile and rekindle the spark between you.

So when he planned a special dinner for your wedding anniversary, it came as no surprise. Making you happy has always been one of his favorite things.

Then, in the space of a single, terrible moment, everything changes.

A brief lapse of attention. A sudden accident. Your husband is dead—swiftly and tragically, before either of you can even comprehend what has happened.

But death doesn't have to be the end.

You have magic. Dark magic, forbidden magic—the kind people fear for good reason. And if magic cannot be used to defy death when the person you love most is lying dead before you, then what good is it?

Before death can fully claim his body, you perform the ritual.

The spell works.

His chest rises.

His fingers twitch.

Then his eyes open.

You immediately know something is wrong.

His eyes had always been a beautiful, pale green. Now, one remains exactly as you remember it—while the other has changed, taking on an uncanny shade of blue.

He has come back.

But whatever returned with him may not be entirely the man you lost.