A Death Like Poetry

Immortality is power.

But the price to conquer death is your life.

Deavan Nightshade is a weapon, but she isn’t a warrior. Reborn with the power to rip out immortal hearts, she may be the only mortal who can kill her people’s enemy. But her bitter hatred for immortalkind makes her a liability—even if she has every reason to hate them.

So when the chance to steal the Source of Immortality arises, Deavan is the first to volunteer for the mission. Her only problem is Laith Aquil—the dangerous immortal whose fascination with her deadly hands threatens to ruin her plans.

Twelve cycles after his wife was executed, Laith has lost his reason to live. But when the rebels he once hunted recruit him for a mission, he reluctantly agrees to join them—if only to keep an eye on the reckless mortal who is his way out of the immortal life he never wanted.

She wants him and his kind dead.

He needs her alive.

But in Nycthemeron, only the powerful get to choose who lives and dies.