What the Night Devoured

In this slow-burn, gothic romantasy, a young woman must work with her brooding childhood friend-turned-enemy—now a ruthless magic-wielder—to save their planet from absolute destruction, the first in a sizzling new duology from USA Today bestselling author Zoey Draven.

In the far reaches of space, the sentient planet of Vale hungers . . .

Working as a librarian at a prestigious magical academy, Cora Blythe struggles to survive on her home planet’s harsh surface. Each day, she’s plagued by a mysterious illness—one she believes was also responsible for her mother’s terrible death—and she’s running out of time to find answers.

When an annual ritual ends in catastrophe, unleashing monstrous beasts and an eternal night, Cora discovers she may not be so weak after all. Something has awakened in her too, long-dormant powers that mark her as an abomination to be hunted by the very superhuman race she serves, who will stop at nothing to capture her.

Needing safety, she must rely on the one person she swore she’d never trust again: Veren Morndell, the last heir to a powerful bloodline, who was once her friend and first love . . . until he callously shattered her heart.

But a decade as enemies hasn’t dulled the aching tension between them. Alone together on his isolated estate, they suspect the answer to her unexplained powers may lie in their haunted past. Yet, Vale is angrier than ever. For a planet that demands payment in blood, Cora may be the key to saving everyone . . . or damning them all to die in the dark.

Book One of the Vile Vale duology