Awakened by Shadows

A grieving sister on a mission, a demon running from his past, and a fake fated-mate bond that turns dangerously real in the third installment of the Shadows of Aurelia series.

Cass is a sharp-tongued artist who never believed in otherworldly realms-until she encounters Hal, a charismatic loner living in Nashville, who hides a pair of demon horns beneath his cowboy hat. Ever since her sister Selene abruptly left town with a flimsy excuse, Cass has suspected there was more to her story. Her desperate search for answers has gone nowhere until Hal reveals the unthinkable: her sister left the human realm to be with her demon mate in the Underworld. 

Hal fled the Underworld to live among humans back when the American West was still wild. But when he's summoned home for the coronation of a new king, he knows the debt he's been running from has finally come due. To satisfy it, he must present his fated mate. But there's just one problem... he hasn't met her yet. So, when he's approached by an exquisite human who's desperate to reunite with her sister, they strike a bargain. Pretend to be fated mates and achieve both their goals.

Yet once Cass and Hal are in the realm of the dead, nothing goes to plan. Finding Selene proves more treacherous than they expected, the debt Hal owes is far greater than he knew, and the passion igniting between them could derail everything. 

On a journey that forces Cass and Hal to reckon with more than the traumas that shaped them, two broken souls must awaken to the futures they never dared to believe in.