Book Two: Fade to Midnight

The veil has thinned. The ghost has a name. But the shadows are not done.

Clara Vance thought she had won.

With the Root-God sealed and the mirror-curse lifted, peace returned to Dovemire Hollow. Her love, Nathaniel Blackmoor-the ghost once bound to her family's legacy-is now flesh beside her. The house no longer haunts. The mirrors no longer whisper.

But something stirs in the quiet.

A doppelgänger forged from Clara's fractured soul rises with a violet-glass blade, sent not from the veil, but by a deeper power: The Watcher Beyond, a faceless force feeding on memory, reflection, and desire. When the curse fails to break Clara, it evolves. It creates Tessa-a mysterious young woman drawn to the Hollow by dreams she doesn't understand and a name she cannot forget.

As Tessa's connection to Clara deepens, secrets unfurl like vines in moonlight. The Hollow remembers more than Clara ever knew-and the story she thought she'd ended is only the first chapter of a larger, darker design. The Watcher doesn't want her body. He wants her story. He wants to write himself into history.

But Clara, Nathaniel, and Tessa won't let him.

Together, they form the Memory Keepers, a new sisterhood devoted to preserving truth and resisting erasure. When the Watcher finally rises in flesh to claim the world for himself, they fight back-not with blades or spells, but with legacy.

In the end, it is not the mirror that defines them-but the woman who chose to face it, rewrite it, and walk through it whole.