When Gods Fall, Mortals Rise : A Goddess's Choice Between Heaven's
"You are forbidden from ever returning to the heavens. Your divinity is sealed. Live as the mortals do—and suffer as they suffer."
Seraphine, once the beloved Goddess of Dawn and Light, awakens in the mortal realm with no memory of her divine past and her powers completely sealed. Accused of a crime she didn't commit—loving a mortal in her previous lifetime—she was cast down by her own sister and the Celestial Council, condemned to live as a powerless human.
Now working as a servant in a cruel nobleman's estate, Seraphine endures daily humiliation and abuse, her ethereal beauty making her a target for jealousy and assault. She has no idea why she dreams of golden palaces, why moonlight makes her skin glow faintly, or why she feels an inexplicable emptiness in her chest.
Everything changes when she's sold to pay her master's debts to the kingdom's most feared man—Duke Cassian Nightborne, the Death Knight. Cursed by dark magic to die on his 30th birthday (now only six months away), Cassian is cold, brutal, and has given up on salvation. He purchases Seraphine on a whim, intrigued by the strange warmth he feels in her presence—the first warmth he's felt in ten years of living under his curse.
When assassins attack and Seraphine instinctively throws herself in front of Cassian, her divine powers awaken for a split second, healing his mortal wound with celestial light. The heavens immediately take notice. Her sister, now ruling as the Supreme Goddess, sends divine hunters to drag Seraphine back—not to restore her, but to execute her for breaking her banishment terms.
As Seraphine's memories slowly return and her powers begin to awaken, she discovers the terrible truth: she was framed by her jealous sister who wanted the throne. The "mortal" she supposedly loved in her past life was actually Cassian's ancestor, and Cassian himself carries a curse specifically designed to punish Seraphine—if she ever loves again, her beloved will die.
Now Seraphine must make an impossible choice: reclaim her divinity and return to the heavens to challenge her sister, securing her rightful place as a goddess... or remain mortal, accept permanent powerlessness, and break Cassian's curse with her life—because the only way to save the man who taught her what love truly means is to sacrifice her immortality forever.
But the heavens don't let go easily. And Cassian, learning the cost of her love, must decide if he'll let her sacrifice herself—or find another way to defy destiny itself.