Step beyond the veil. Face the enemy you can’t resist. And discover the power that refuses to stay buried.

Killian, the reclusive King of Bressair, has not crossed his kingdom’s borders in nearly seven years, not since the night his realm burned and his infant daughter became the only reason he still draws breath. Now thirty-four, cantankerous, and barely tolerated by his court, he rules with one purpose: to keep his child safe until she can claim the throne he no longer trusts himself to hold.

But when his daughter vanishes into the Celtic wilds, taken by one of the Otherworld’s creatures, Killian abandons his walls and rides into danger once more. However, his rescue mission collapses quickly when his men fall to a ravenous succubus long before he finds the trail. Beautiful, merciless, and accustomed to leaving corpses in her wake, Nyala spares only one man—the first human ever to resist her allure—with the veiled promise to help him locate his child.

Bound together by necessity and irritation in equal measure, Killian and Nyala forge an uneasy alliance as they hunt through monster-ridden forests and uncover a pattern millennia in the making. Predator and prey by nature, partners by circumstance, they soon find friction giving way to a dangerous pull neither of them can deny.

Mistress of the Veil: A Fading Dawn is a sweeping tale of forbidden magic, ancient conspiracies, reluctant family, and a love sharp enough to wound. As truth bleeds through their journey, Killian must decide whether trusting a demon is the doom of his people—or the only way to save the child he’d burn the world to reclaim.