Apples and Gold

He always knew who I was.
Now it's my turn to make him remember.

The hunter never lost the truth, he buried it, the way the Golden Apple buries everything. He knew my name before I gave him a false one. Knew my hair beneath the dye, and let me spend all that time believing I was the one with something to hide.

I'm done being kept in the dark. If the memories locked inside him are the thing that can crack this kingdom open, then I'll drag them into the light myself.

Someone I trusted has already sold me. The found family behind these amber walls isn't what it pretended to be, and the people I once thought were merely dangerous turn out to be so much worse.

I came here to disappear. Instead I'm unearthing a Hunter whose reasons might be the death of me, surrounded by people who'd rather see me buried than free, and far more of them than I ever counted.

So if this corrupt little kingdom wants me silenced, let it choke on its poison.

Apples and Gold Part II is the dark, spicy conclusion to the duology, enemies-to-lovers turned ride-or-die, an age-gap huntsman with secrets she has to drag into the light, a found family with knives behind their smiles, a betrayal that cuts to the bone, more enemies than she can count, and a slow burn that's already snapped.