About the book: year / A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story taking place after a bloody war. In a city where humans and Darklings are separated by a high wall, and tensions still simmer between the two races after a terrible war, sixteen-year-old Ash Fisher, half Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, human and daughter of the Emissary, meet and the unthinkable happens - they fall in love. Bound by a mysterious bond that sets Ash's long-dormant heart beating, he and Natalie initially deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other, knowing that if they are caught they will be executed - but their feelings are too strong . When Ash and Natalie find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to reignite the war between humans and the Darklings, they must make difficult choices that could spell death for both of them..