Simone has lived in Briarwood Hollow for as long as she can remember, measuring time in books, and the quiet rhythm of her inherited bookstore. She knows the weight of memory, the hush of turning pages, and the ache of yearning she cannot quite name. Her life has been a gentle solitude—until the day a mysterious woman steps through her door. Nyssa has been searching for her across lifetimes. Centuries of hunger, of almosts and nearlys, have brought her to this moment. And when she finds Simone—alive and radiant, tucked away in Briarwood—she knows she won’t let her slip away again. Not this time. What follows is a sensual, haunted unraveling of fate, desire, and devotion. A love that remembers. A hunger that refuses to be forgotten.