I Go Dark

The demon doesn't need to win. It just needs to wait.

Joss knows this. She's watched herself hollow out over months—the rage bleeding in at the edges, the wall holding but the woman behind it failing. When every cure proved a dead end, she made the only logical choice: go home. Say goodbye. Stop pretending.

Elena, the woman who first held Joss's heart, has returned. Not with a cure, but with the quiet devastation of someone who cares enough to stay until the end. Abigail, River, and Indigo grieve her while she's still standing. Only Caroline, once her enemy, now something harder to name, refuses to make peace with it.

But grief is a luxury none of them can afford for long. Rana has not forgotten what Joss carries. The Hypatia Coven is coming, and it is not coming to offer mercy.

The demon is patient. Rana is not. And Joss is running out of time to decide if she has anything left worth fighting for.