<p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Six years ago, the tightly-coiled barrier between the supernatural world and our own collapsed.</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Nothing since has been the same, least of all me.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">My name is Mareena, and for as long as I can remember, nearly every person I've grown close to has met with an early demise: my parents, extended family, first boyfriend, first girlfriend...Look, you get the idea. We'll be here all day if I lay the full list out for you.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">I guess just be thankful I've never had a pet.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">My solution to this meddlesome curse: Let no one close.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">(Other than my equally meddlesome best friend, who rejects my every attempt to push her away.)</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">And curse or not, I've managed to build a pretty comfortable life, all things considered.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">I have a home, a job, and a small community that I care about. Things I've fought tooth and nail to get-and protect.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">My plan was supposed to be simple. Easy. Or so I thought. Simplicity flew out the window with The Undoing.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Armed with my best friend, a crow that's set up permanent residence in our apartment (to be clear, absolutely *not* a pet-he's a freaking menace), and the increasingly terrifying visions I've been getting, I have to find a way to survive in this strange new world.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">But try as I might to protect my small world from death's embrace, death comes calling anyway-in the form of two mysterious men that only I seem able to see. They wait on the sidelines, eager to pull me towards my destiny. Whether I'm ready for it or not.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Don't worry.</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Death may be relentless, but so am I.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Tropes You Can Expect to Encounter:</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo,#0f1111)">Why Choose (slow build)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo,#0f1111)">Apocalyptic Urban Fantasy</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo,#0f1111)">Enemies to Lovers</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo,#0f1111)">Forbidden Romance</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo,#0f1111)">Forced Proximity</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo,#0f1111)">Slow burn romance with early spice</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo,#0f1111)">Found Family</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>