Mira has lived on the edges long enough to know the cost peace demands. In the forest, far from the village that never claimed her, survival is hard-but peace is honest, and solitude has become her chosen companion.
When an immortal stranger grants her stewardship of a secluded cottage hidden among the trees, she believes she has finally found all she needs.
All of that changes the night she finds a gravely injured man on her cottage floor.:
Vale is shaped by centuries of loss and hope. As Mira tends his wounds and shares her days with him, her solitude begins to shift-unsettled not by danger but by the slow, irresistible pull of yearning she never meant to welcome. Drawn into a world long dismissed as myth, Mira discovers belonging-and the price it asks of her.
Old forces stir, loyalties strain, and she is left with a choice she never anticipated: the quiet life she fought to build... or the aching, beautiful uncertainty of wanting more.
Now, in a land marked by prophecy and old scars, Mira must decide whether she will answer what is calling to her-through unseen forces, the depths of her own heart, and the man who has already begun to change the shape of her peace.