A New Stranger

By Payton Walker

When Sarah's quiet, carefully guarded life begins to fracture, it starts with whispers. Whispers of a past she can't remember. Of a family she was never meant to know. Of a realm she was never supposed to find.

Then Justin arrives.

Mysterious, sharp-eyed, always one step too close, Justin is everything Sarah can't explain-and doesn't want to. Their connection is immediate, suffocating, and impossible to ignore. But while Sarah tries to hold onto the fragile world she's built, the people around her begin keeping secrets. Secrets about the Court. About the pendants she's inherited. And about the boy who seems to know more about her than he admits.

As nightmares blur into waking visions and strangers stalk the shadows of her town, Sarah is pulled into a web of lies, blood, and forgotten oaths. The realm of Nox calls to her, a place of trials and darkness where every answer comes with a price. Freyr, the enigmatic figure who claims to be her guide, offers her power-but the deeper she goes, the more she realizes that the greatest threat might not be the realm or the Court.

It might be the bond tethering her to Justin.

As their relationship spirals from reluctant partnership into something more dangerous-obsession, need, betrayal-Sarah is forced to make a choice that will break them both.

But some bonds refuse to be broken. Even if they should be.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FDK6L6VC
• ISBN13: 9798288417986
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 554 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"