Crossed

Never After #5

From bestselling author Emily McIntire comes a dark and exciting fairy tale that reimagines the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
He is justice. She is sinful.
Father Cade Frédéric was a holy man. Raised on the streets of Paris, he devoted his life to the Church. But there’s a monster lurking just below the surface. Diseases. The one who sheds the blood of darkness and eats the flesh of the damned. When he is assigned to become a priest in Festivalé, Vermont, a town of beautiful architecture but full of despair, his illness resonates, demanding that he escape the place of evil.
Amaya Paquette is Festivalé’s beautiful mystery. She spends her days taking care of her younger brother and at night she transforms into Esmeralda, dancing with eager eyes and shameless lips. Although she craves love, she avoids friendship, afraid of being abandoned again.
When Father Cade sets his sights on Amaya, he finds himself trapped, convinced that she is using witchcraft to lure him to her. He can’t eat. I can not breathe. I can’t think unless it’s her.
And temptation is a cruel mistress.
She is his weakness, so he decides that she will be the death of him…even if it means killing the only woman he can love.