Inkheart Novels & Stories

Ava Reyes has spent four years doing what she does best — keeping her feelings exactly where they cannot do any damage. She is twenty-nine, co-owner of a thriving bakery, and hopelessly in love with the one man she has absolutely no business wanting. Marcus Calloway is her best friend's older brother — steady, brilliant, and infuriatingly easy to be near. When he left for London six years ago, Ava buried her feelings and moved on. Or did a convincing enough impression of it. Then Marcus comes home. Permanently. And he is engaged. His fiancée, Isabelle Ferreira, is a sharp London solicitor who is warm, intelligent, and impossible to resent. She has done nothing wrong. She deserves everything she has. Which makes what Ava is beginning to want all the more dangerous. Because the more Ava finds herself near Marcus — at family dinners, in stolen conversations, in the small accidental moments that keep finding them together — the more she notices things she shouldn't. The way he watches her. The way the air shifts between them when no one else is paying attention. She is not a woman who chases unavailable men. She has a conscience, and it is loud. But she is also a woman who is tired of being careful. What begins as a private war with herself slowly becomes something more deliberate. Ava doesn't set out to destroy anything. She simply sets out to make Marcus Calloway finally see her. What she doesn't account for is how much it will cost — and how deeply she will fall before she understands the difference between wanting someone and deserving them. Some fires don't care how carefully you've been living.

Aylin Lunaris was never meant to survive. Betrayed by her family and offered to the feared Lycan Kingdom as a sacrifice, the human girl expects only one thing when she arrives at the mountain fortress of Lupercal: death. Every clan has been forced to send a daughter, and everyone knows humans are nothing more than tools in the eyes of the wolves. But Aylin is different. When a rare power hidden within her awakens, she catches the attention of Prince Lucien—the future Lycan King and the most dangerous wolf in the kingdom. As Lucien struggles to control a brutal transformation that threatens to consume his humanity, Aylin becomes the one person capable of calming the beast within him. Yet the closer she gets to the prince, the more questions arise. Why is a mere human able to do what no one else can, Survive? Why does an ancient power buried beneath the kingdom seem to recognize her? And why does fate keep pulling her toward a king she should fear and hate? As enemies gather, secrets unravel, and a forbidden bond grows stronger, Aylin discovers a truth that shatters everything she thought she knew about herself. Because she isn't just a human girl. And she is not who she believes she is. In a world ruled by wolves, blood, and destiny, Aylin must uncover the truth of her origins before it destroys both her and the king she was never supposed to love.