Pretending

YA Romantasy • Hidden Worlds • Dangerous Magic • Love Under Siege

Leath Elliott thought she finally had control.

Her memories are restored.
Her heart belongs to James.
And her future balances between two worlds she's only just begun to understand.

But Judaculla magic doesn't stay contained-not anymore.

It's bleeding into Leath's world, twisting shadows where they shouldn't exist and whispering truths she was never meant to hear.

Then an unexpected offer arrives…
From someone who was once her enemy.
Someone who claims to have answers-and suddenly wants to help.

Leath doesn't know if she's being manipulated, warned, or handed a truth that could shatter everything she believes.

Meanwhile, James is unraveling.

Haunted by the past.
Hunted by forces he can't outrun.
Pulled between two worlds that are slowly destroying him.

As time runs out, Leath is forced to confront the question she's avoided for too long:

Does she truly know the boy she's risked everything for?
Or has she been loving a dream all along?

When magic turns deadly and lies run deep, love may not be enough to save them.

Pretending is the third book in The Fading Series, a clean YA romantasy filled with dream-bound love, shifting realities, hidden agendas, and the cost of believing in someone when the truth refuses to stay buried.

Tropes: Lovers Pulled Apart, Enemies-to-Uneasy-Allies, "Do I Really Know You?" Tension, Magic Bleeding Into the Real World, Secrets & Hidden Motives, Race Against Time
Tone: Darkly Romantic, Emotional, Suspenseful
Heat Level: Clean Romance
Comps: The Vampire Diaries (no vampires), Beautiful Creatures, Fallen, A Discovery of Witches