Married to the God of Lost Things

She finds what people lose. He keeps what they surrender. One stolen ring makes them adversaries under an ancient law that calls them married. Mara Velez makes a living finding heirlooms, evidence, and truths families would rather leave buried. Then an impossible investigation leads her beneath Meridian Central and into the Archive of Lost Things, where everything humanity has truly surrendered is kept by Soren, its dangerous and infuriatingly precise immortal Keeper. Mara only wants her late mother's blackened-gold wedding ring. Taking it invokes an ancient law neither of them chose. For thirty nights, Mara and Soren must work as adversaries and allies while they uncover why her mother surrendered the ring-and who is returning dangerous losses to the living world. Every return brings Mara closer to the truth. Every touch brings her closer to the god who can catalog every human grief except his own. To save the city, they must dismantle a law built to turn relevance into ownership-and decide whether vows freely written can mean more than a marriage neither accepted. An adult mythic fantasy romance with a competent thirty-something heroine, a powerful immortal hero, open-door heat, a magical mystery, and a complete happily-ever-after.