Marek has spent twenty years wandering roads that never quite lead him home.

Then, at the edge of a lonely lake, he meets Aven.

She is beautiful, strange, and far more dangerous than she appears. Aven knows the road to Dorn, and she is willing to guide him there—for a price.

Nine markers. Nine kisses. Nine memories surrendered forever.

It should be an easy bargain. Aven has stolen memories from men for centuries, feeding the dark magic that allows her to walk beyond the water. But Marek is different.

He doesn’t fear forgetting.

He welcomes it.

With every kiss, Aven uncovers another fragment of the life he has spent years trying to escape and begins to wonder whether she is stealing from him at all… or giving him exactly what he wants.

As the ninth marker draws closer, desire blurs with danger, old secrets rise from beneath the water, and Aven must decide what is more frightening: the memories Marek is desperate to lose, or the feelings she is beginning to keep.

A dark, sensual folkloric romance about grief, memory, and the dangerous mercy of forgetting.