She looks like a eighteen-year-old girl, but has already lived two and a half centuries in complete isolation, speaking only with echoes and ice statues. The Child of the Blizzard, imprisoned in a black castle of eterna...

Lars Nordgren is an architect with an impeccable body and a life scheduled down to the minute, where every gram of food is accounted for and his muscles are honed to sharp definition. Behind the façade of Scandinavian r...

Amaranta Vesper, Warden of the Northern March, is a queen whose beauty is like a honed blade, her heart sealed tight in an icy shell of post-war trauma. She has turned hyper-control into an art form, ruling the state wi...

Kai Morgan calculates the trajectory of every person within a three-meter radius — it's the only way to keep from losing his mind to other people's touch. At twenty-one, he knows more about the brain than most of his pr...

The Count de Montfort had never sought the warmth of another's body — and at thirty-nine, this icy emptiness had become both his curse and his shield. He needs only an heir, not a wife, but society does not forgive a ma...

Matthias Weber is a Lieutenant Colonel of Internal Service whose face holds the map of fires he's survived, and whose shovel-hands can be gentler than a pianist's. He sniffs the air in every room, sleeps facing the door...

Damian Blake is a field surgeon who saves lives by day and hides those the system overlooks from violence by night. He has hands capable of suturing a temporal artery in a shaking truck, and a heart that still holds con...

They call him "Silence," because he never raises his voice — and after his words, you want to fall quiet forever. Cain Hernández cut "Caiman" from his name, leaving only the biblical brand, and turned the prison into a ...

Ryan Thorn is a former bodyguard who traded his sword for his fingertips and now teaches young aristocratic women to feel pleasure without losing their innocence. He has no scars, but he does have a tattoo of a palm wit...

She is a concubine's daughter with the face of an aristocrat and the soul of a warrior, sent by her father to the capital as a living gift to rid himself of the "evil eye." Instead of mirrors, she looks at herself in th...

Elian von Ernor is the heir to a harsh northern kingdom who knows how to speak with wounded ravens but has never learned to hold a sword without flinching. His slender musician's fingers and habit of disappearing from r...

Liam Cortes programmed his life to avoid awkwardness, but somehow managed to fall in love with someone who considers awkwardness the only honest language. This slouching front-end developer, with hands that remember chi...

He built houses, and now he's building a fortress out of rusted metal and human despair. Sebastian Cage never sleeps more than four hours — behind him are three hundred and seventy-two lives, and each one presses down o...

Aiyan Toyon wears nine silver bells in his hair, which ring only in the presence of spirits, and has forbidden anyone from speaking his true name, lest the gods notice him among the living. At nineteen, he has already u...

This man wears a map of violence on his face — a broken nose, a scar above his eyebrow that he stitched himself at fourteen, and eyes of such silence that it is louder than any scream. In the criminal world of Bogotá, t...

Leo Carter is a twenty-four-year-old illustrator with a carpenter's hands and a habit of looking at the world as if he's about to turn any drama into an excuse for irony. He wears other people's shirts as if they were h...

Lia Foster doesn't remember faces — she remembers scents and touches, mapping out the contours of someone else's life from them. She turns dull presentations into instruments of hypnosis, and caring for a man into a rit...

They call Maya Walters "the Ghost" — she's the only one who returns from the deepest raids beyond the perimeter, yet in the Bastion, they fear her no less than the infected. She is immune to the virus that destroyed the...

He broke his betrothed without ever touching her, turning her into a shadow — and never noticed the switch. For three weeks, he ate, slept, and shared a bed with the witch he himself had condemned to the flames, and he ...

Mark Hardy is accustomed to foreseeing disasters long before they happen — at work, on the road, in someone else's life — but he chose his own family against all calculations. Beneath his flawless precision as a logisti...

In the Bastion, they call him "Doc" — he is the only one who knows how to stitch wounds and break fevers with homemade tinctures, though his own arm is marred by a scar left from the very first night of rescue. At thirt...

The Lord of Rivercross has survived three hundred and forty-seven winters, but a mortal traveler who glances into his halls would see only a weary aristocrat on the threshold of his thirties. Beneath the impeccable mask...

Amber Vasquez is a woman who's used to solving the unsolvable and taking a hit, but falls apart when she simply needs to ask for help. She carries the heavy weight of others' responsibility like a perfectly tailored sui...

Captain Noah Foster returns to the city where no one is waiting for him, with an empty left sleeve and a habit of waking before dawn. He knows how to read people by the movement of their shoulders and assemble engines w...

Luca Rosso is a twenty-four-year-old esports player with the looks of a telenovela hero and a habit of baking bread to calm his nerves after tournaments. Beneath the mask of a public guild leader in "Eclipse Online" hid...

The twenty-nine-year-old Emperor of Asteria, whose body is mapped with scars — the price of power and a long-forgotten attempt to save a horse from fire. He rules with the iron hand of a dynasty that has held the throne...

Ethan is an architect who builds perfect homes for others but can't find peace in his own. His beauty is slow-acting, like poison, and fatigue has seeped so deep into him it's become part of his face. He knows how to ma...

He looks like a cold blade in an expensive suit, but at home he transforms into warm hands that massage tired feet for hours and braid crooked little pigtails for dolls. In his veins runs a boiling mix of Castilian prid...

Liam O'Connor builds skyscrapers, but he still keeps in a little box the smell of asphalt after rain — where he and his wife first kissed. He has the hands of a pianist, perpetually covered in graphite dust, and his gra...

She looks like a harmless massage therapist with tired eyes, but Alicia Vane's long fingers know the points on a man's body that, when pressed, stop the heart forever. Nursing a childhood grudge against her traitorous f...

Captain Danilin is a tall, reserved officer with hands that know how to hold a machine gun and carefully pluck the strings of an old guitar. Beneath the outward coolness and military bearing hides a man who became the h...

22-year-old Cole Mitchell looks like the kind of guy you'd avoid making eye contact with in a dark alley: pushing 6'4", a heavy stare from under his brows, and hands covered in calluses. But if you look closer, those sa...

Imagine a man whose beard shimmers with the iridescent blue of a raven's wing, and whose eyes, the color of aged honey, see into the very soul. A veteran of bloody wars who fears the dark and carves wooden birds at nigh...

She bears a name meaning "Moon-Faced One," but the light she emits burns with cold — Aishe, the ghost of a daughter in the palace's golden cage, the only woman permitted to look upon the Sultan without fear. Raised in i...