My Guardian, My Sin

They call Isolde Ashcombe the girl who can't die, a whispered legend born from impossible escapes. But when a balcony collapses and she plunges towards certain death, she's caught by a mysterious stranger whose grey eyes hold no light, yet know her name. This isn't luck; it's a meticulously planned attack, and the impossible rescue reveals a hidden world where guardians exist, and someone wants her gone. As Isolde grapples with the truth of her charmed life and the dark forces closing in, They call Isolde Ashcombe the girl who can't die. At twenty, the heiress to one of Britain's oldest fortunes has survived a car crash that killed her mother, a fall from a bolting horse, and a yacht that went up in flames. Everyone has a guardian angel, unseen and unknown, standing at their shoulder from first breath to last. Isolde's, it seems, never sleeps. Then the stone balcony at her family's estate gives way beneath her. Someone cut it loose. She falls forty feet into the dark, and a stranger catches her in his arms. He has bare feet, grey eyes that hold no light, and he says her name as if he has waited his whole life to say it. Two days later he walks into her seminar at Ravenscourt University. Rowan Hale. A transfer student with a perfect past that no one can remember. He knows which hand she draws with, how she takes her tea, and the lullaby only her mother ever sang. Every time someone tries to kill her, he is there. Isolde doesn't know what he is. Rowan can never tell her. He is her guardian angel. For twenty years he has watched over her without once being seen, and now he has broken heaven's law to stand beside her in human flesh. Three laws bind every guardian. Never be seen. Never be known. Never be loved. He has already broken the first. The second is slipping. And the third is the one that could destroy them both. Because something hungry is hunting Isolde through the colleges and candlelit cellars of Ravenscourt, and it is not human. Her family is pushing her into an engagement with a golden boy who sometimes stares at nothing and whispers in a voice that isn't his. And the angels who enforce heaven's laws have noticed that one of their own is missing. The flesh Rowan stole will fail by Midsummer, the day Isolde turns twenty-one. If she survives that long, she'll have to choose between the life everyone has planned for her and a love that heaven itself has forbidden. A slow-burn paranormal romance of secrets, privilege and forbidden devotion, set among the spires of an ancient English university.

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