Charlie I woke up in a hospital with no memory, no answers. Not just any hospital—a psych ward filled with strangers who called me crazy. I wasn’t supposed to end up like scared, restrained, and changed in ways I couldn’t explain. I was just a normal teenager—until my seventeenth birthday. That’s when the visions started, pulling me toward a place called Crescent Moon, a forest in Colorado, I begged my family to visit.
That’s the last memory I had before everything went blank. Now I have two stay locked away and pray they let me go… or escape and uncover the truth about what really happened to my life.
Naja At twenty-eight, I had given up hope of ever finding a true mate. Death and blood followed me everywhere, a curse born of the Moon Goddess’s so-called gift—the power to heal, twisted and exploited until I no longer trusted it.
Then I found Charlotte. Broken. Bleeding. Dying. The other half of my soul. I bit her to save her, knowing it would bind us forever. And then I let her go, because she was too young, too sweet, too pure to be shackled to a man like me.
They say if you love someone, you let them go. If they’re truly yours, they’ll return. I just pray that’s true—because now that I know she’s out there, I can’t exist without her. Even if she doesn’t remember me yet.
R. A. Russell is a practicing business-law attorney in Los Angeles and holds degrees from Claremont McKenna College and Harvard Law School. Raising Redemption is Russell’s debut novel.