Description
When twenty-two-year-old Josephine Vale leaves behind her life in Portland to start fresh in the sleepy, rain-soaked town of Forks, Washington, she tells herself it's just temporary. A job at the local hospital. A chance to catch her breath. A quiet place to heal. Living with her uncle, Police Chief Charlie Swan, Josephine slips into the gray rhythm of small-town life-quiet shifts, early mornings, and long drives beneath the trees. But Forks holds more than sleepy days and overcast skies. Whispers float through the hospital halls about a certain doctor. Calm, brilliant. Unaging. Unreachable. Josephine doesn't believe in local legends or fairy tales. But as her life slowly intertwines with the shadows lingering just beyond her understanding, she begins to sense that something isn't quite human-and maybe neither is the connection she feels beginning to stir. In a world where the ordinary and the eternal quietly collide, Josephine will discover that even the softest heart can be drawn to something cold, strange, and impossibly beautiful.
Chapter 1: Rain and Reverence
