Ten years ago, I risked everything on a nameless boy. I came out the other side with a murder conviction, a prison sentence, and a minor case of amnesia.
I forgot everything about that boy, and now I’m out on parole, just a nobody witch volunteering at an animal rescue and keeping a low profile. Everything was fine until the notorious Crystal Druid showed up to hunt a powerful fae that’s leaving a trail of dead bodies in its wake—bodies that the local ex-con, me, will be blamed for.
To save my own hide, I offer to help him. But with every clash of temper between us, something inside me cracks a little more. The closer we get to our target—and the closer I get to the guarded Crystal Druid—the more my missing memories loom.
The fae killer is far deadlier than I imagined—but so is the boy I forgot. And the only question now is which one will destroy me first.
a picture of me / a portrait of the main character
Annette Marie is so fucking good. I borrowed the Demonized series like… last year? From the library. And I’ve been dying to read more because I was so hooked, I bought the Demonized series ages ago. There’s so many books she’s written that I couldn’t decide which series to get next and well, the library just added the first in the Unveiled series.
Now I’m like, fuckit, I’m going to collect every book that she has written. I will dedicate a shelf to her writing. Demonized was such a lovely slowburn and now this is an excellent feral asshole x overly nice guy who totally fucked her over who (obviously, to me) are childhood lovers and— listen, dude, Annette Marie is locked in a battle against her own characters going, “YOU’LL DO THIS IF I HAVE TO MAKE YOU!”
Because she lets the characters develop and isn’t afraid to let her stories mix. It might turn off some people, but for me it’s a lot of fun. It’s the sort of thing that gets me excited to meet other characters, I guess?
Anyway, I just really enjoyed a feral girl/former murderer being uncomfortable about being kinda murder-horny. My first thought was she was gonna boink her familiar, but we’ll have to wait and see.
*I almost added the “Shortest Way to the Heart” trope because in truth, the shortest way to the heart IS through the chest…
