Tracey Warren has her last year of high school mapped out—stay focused, graduate in a few months, and get the hell out of Bennington Virginia. Everything is working out in her favor. Life has finally started to normal out, until... a car accident sends her plans spiraling out of her control. Her pedestrian reality crashes around her after an innocuous encounter with a diabolically handsome stranger. Nathan Newcomb has her head and her world altering minute by minute. Soon, she discovers the only cure for the uneasy feelings and abrasive pain is Nathan himself. A man whose very existence balances between violent chaos and rigidly controlled dangers. Nathan knows the life of a woman mated to a Burdened Sephlem is destined for peril beyond a human’s reckoning, that he’ll be required to literally hand over his heart to her. But Tracey calls to his desire to experience love in spite of the hazards. And Nathan’s impossibly potent magnetism draws Tracey into a bonding that will put her in mortal danger again and again. Once the pair becomes one, the threat escalates and nowhere is safe. There are enemies that lurk behind every corner. But the greatest danger may be in the bloodlines that course through Nathan’s veins. Can their love survive or will their burdened souls surrender and fade away?

After a devastating confession from Nathan’s sister, Taylor, Tracey and Nathan can’t catch a break. Influenced by Roehl, Tracey fights against the pull he has on her and the love she has for Nathan. Brought a choice of being set free of a bond she finds is not as profound as she interpreted. Or continue to endure the burdens promised by being bound to her mate. Tracey may reconsider her choice in choosing Nathan. Just as everything finally seems to be looking up, Nathan and Tracey’s world is turned upside down when they embark on a suicide mission to rescue a friend. Old encounters resurface from someone who should have been destroyed long ago and new secrets are uncovered. Secrets that may have Nathan parting from Tracey in order to keep her and his mother safe. Is Nathan and Tracey’s bond as lasting as originally implied. Or is it breakable, as Tracey is influenced to believe? Or will she stay with Nathan resulting in him conceivably choosing not to be with her?

As if losing everyone else wasn’t enough. Nathan and Tracey have to battle to keep from losing each other. The worse of their worries have yet to come when they find they are the main source of a demon takeover that threatens them and the humans. With every burdened they have encountered, they have yet to bare the worse.

Following the death of her mate, Tracey has no idea of the journey she has been prepared for, the one she is taking, and the threat of one that is to come. In this conclusion to A Burdened Novel all is revealed. A web of lies, deceit, and betrayal has orchestrated a beginning no one saw coming and an ending no one will see conclude. One can only hope burdened love will conquer both, life and death, as the unraveling web discloses secrets the family wished remained unknown. As unexpected beings appear and others vanish, it’s impossible to know who can be trusted, who will stay alive, and what loved ones will parish. Take one last dive into A Burdened Novel’s final installment, Plagued, and have all the what’s, who’s, and how’s exposed.