[Isles of Stone 01] • Emerald's Fracture

**A deadly epidemic. A madman exploiting it. How will she save her people?**

Natalie Desmond has a hectic life as a Healer at Bridhe of the Isles Abbey: using magic to save lives, teaching young Healing students, and tending plants in the greenhouse. Jules Rayvenwood, Natalie’s handsome former professor, is the only thing missing. But when Jules comes back at last, it changes her fate forever.

Jules Rayvenwood returns to the Abbey changed in body and mind—and unable to Heal. A mandate to work with his onetime student, Natalie Desmond, to restore his abilities only adds to his bitterness. When the pair receives orders to treat a fast-acting epidemic in a remote coastal city, both doubt their shaky relationship will withstand the test.

As shadowy secrets swirl around them, Natalie and Jules must ultimately choose between obeying a treacherous Healer’s order to return to the Abbey and trying to save their people. What fate awaits them if they disobey and fight the epidemic? Assuming they can stop it in the first place…