Emberpyre

She memorized their faces while they slept. Then she went downstairs to die.

The four-way channel is the only weapon that can drive her mother out. Briar knows the math. All four bloodlines, full force, sustained until it's over.

It will kill her.

She doesn't tell them. She holds them one last time and whispers I'm sorry to the stars.

It works. Her mother is gone. The light goes out.

Briar drops. No heartbeat. No breath. No bond.

Four men arrive one by one. The wolf's howl shatters every window in the academy. The vampire's hands shake for the first time in three hundred years. The fae's mask doesn't drop - it shatters. The death mage sits beside her body and says one word: No.

There is a way to bring her back. Each of them must give up the core of what he is.

His immortality. His wolf. His glamour. His death magic.

Four men choosing to become ordinary for a chance - not a certainty - that she opens her eyes.

One word. Saved for twenty-three years. For the only person worth spending it on.

Please.

Book 5 in The Embermoon Chronicles. Dark why-choose paranormal romance. This is the book that breaks you. Cliffhanger ending.