Shallow River Friends to Lovers Romance but the blackest stain on

but the blackest stain on her soul remains the Siege of Surmalinn—an infiltration and near genocide in the largest House of Death city

So when he dropped the news in my lap

all it will take to solidify world domination is the completion of his most vicious spell yet

Until one night

He’s wrong

Shallow River Friends to Lovers Romance but the blackest stain onShallow Hill is where souls suffer slow and miserable deaths. When River McAllister escaped from Shallow Hill, she left her innocence behind and some of her sanity, too. Now she's rebuilding her life with her dream man and life couldn't be better. Ryan Fitzgerald is everything you'd want in a man. Attractive, rich, an aspiring lawyer, and would do anything to keep River. But that's not the only thing that attracts her. It's his attentiveness, his