What Lies Between Us: Book 1 (The Shadow and Light Duet)

A dark fantasy about confronting your past, your future, and your fate.Welcome to Hadeon.After losing both her parents, Cairo’s only hope is to return to a semi-normal life. But those plans are shattered when she finds a mysterious box in the attic of her childhood home—and learns everything about her family is a lie. Where she’s from. Who she is. Even what she is.Her discovery draws her to Hadeon, a gothic town full of magic, intrigue, and things that lurk in the shadows. A town where no one can leave, and no one can enter. Somehow, Cairo did both.But she should have stayed away.A prophecy now binds her to the land- and to Radley, the strange friend from her past she thought she’d imagined. Her return has also unraveled her mother’s years-old bargain, the price she paid for it, and the danger they were initially fleeing.If she wants to escape again, Cairo and Radley must uncover the mystery and rewrite the prophecy—or join the secrets in the grave.For readers who love the tension and dark intrigue of Victoria Aveyard and V.E Schwab, this book offers a griping journey through a town shadowed by prophecy, secrets, and a slow-burning danger.