An angel with no memory. A vampire who claimed her as his wife. A Black Rose blooming a century early.
Ella wakes in a hospital with no memory, no name, and scars on her back that feel like folded wings. A stranger appears at her bedside, claims she's his wife, and gives her a ring with a butterfly on the band.
Play along, he says. Or we're both dead.
Aaron D'Cruz has survived five centuries by being careful. When a mysterious woman appears on his road with no memory and impossible magic, he does the only thing that makes sense: he claims her as his wife to avoid a political marriage he never wanted.
But Ella is not human. She's an angel from the Magical Clouds-a realm hidden in Earth's upper atmosphere, sealed away after a devastating war a thousand years ago.
Her memory was taken. Her magic was locked. And she was sent to the human world for a reason: she is Anchor Pair One of twelve couples whose bonded love can stabilize the realms before the Black Rose reaches full bloom.