Nathan Grier returns from the Veil a changed man. The consequences of his time with Malak, the dark sidhe king, and the deal made to free him may be more than he can bear.<br><br>The weakening of the Veil and new enemies foretell of a greater battle still ahead. With Nathan’s brother Jim now an Awakened changeling, and Nathan’s role in Malak’s plans finally revealed, Nathan’s love for fae hunter and incubus Sasha Kelly may not be enough to save him after all.

Sidhe

“Come on, Nathan, stay with me. Be here. You’re here now, you’re safe. Behere. I’m going to make that bastard pay for what he did to you.” And so on with similar threats and comforts. Jim didn’t even know the details and he hated Malak with a hardened viciousness. Maybe it made it worse that Jim didn’t know because his imagination could invent so many terrible things.


It couldn’t invent the truth though. The truth was worse than anything Jim might conjure up, Nathan was sure of that.


“I wish you’d tell me what happened, Nathan. It’s the trauma. You can’t beat it unless you face it, and the first step can be telling us what you went through. We can handle it.”


“I just want to know what’s making you like this.” He rubbed up and down Nathan’s shoulders as if Nathan were a freezing cold kid coming in from playing outside in the snow. It was ridiculously maternal and Nathan wished he had it in him to make a crack about that.


Chapter 14