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The last honest star in a dying sky is going out—and the only man who remembers how the world ended before is the one who caused it.
Luna Sterling reads dying stars for a living from a candlelit desk in half-ruined Aldenreach, watching the slow apocalypse called the Falling swallow one constellation after another. Six months ago she found a terrifying pattern: the stars are being extinguished in sequence, and that sequence ends at the one star that has never gone dark. The world has less than a year left.
Then a man falls from the sky in a column of impossible light, shattering Luna's solitary life. He has silver eyes full of trapped stars, three thousand years of memory, and calls her Seraphine. The Academy sentences him to die at dawn, but Luna breaks him out—and suspects her crescent-shaped birthmark is the scar of a soul that has already died with this world once.
On the run from the institution that once protected her, Luna finds unlikely allies: Bren, the gruff apothecary who refuses to leave her side; Ashen, a sharp tracker whose brother fell to the cult hunting the same prophecy; and Magister Aldous, the scholar who signed her Guardian's death warrant, now chasing redemption.
Opposing them is Malakor Vane, leader of the Order of the Eclipse, who wants to own the apocalypse and reshape whatever survives, willing to burn every remaining star to get there.
Kaiden made this choice once before—refused to let the woman he loved become the sacrifice the sky demanded, watching an entire world die for his selfishness. He swore never to love again. Now, with the same impossible bargain closing in on Luna, he must decide whether a love that refuses to let go is a promise—or the oldest curse he knows.
If you love reincarnated lovers, immortal guardians, a countdown to the apocalypse, and morally complex found families—this is your next read.