Soul-bonded. Inconveniently.

Juno's just your average quirky archaeologist — with a backpack full of peanut butter, a hellhound named Gus, and an unhealthy obsession with axolotls. Then she pokes around a cave full of ancient rubble and accidentally becomes the owner of something she never wanted: a shadow god's soul.

Cursed and banished by the Celestials, he was condemned to serve mortals for eternity — the ultimate humiliation for an immortal. Now he's bound to protect her, whether he likes it or not. The problem? She can feel his emotions. Every. Single. One.

Juno's made her choice. She wants the bond. She wants Tarak. She wants forever — even if forever means becoming something she doesn't fully understand yet. But completing the bond comes with a price, and the line between freedom and eternal servitude is thinner than either of them wants to admit.

He's spent thirteen thousand years surviving alone. She's spent thirty-one years avoiding phone calls from her mother. Somehow, the second thing might be harder.