What happens when your destiny is not to save the world — but to destroy it?

Cursed. Hunted. Belle O’Hara has a lot on her plate. As she heads off to college and leaves the safety of her well-guarded Academy behind, open season on her life is just beginning. But Belle has no idea why the very depths of the Underworld seem hell-bent on tracking her down — or why she’s the only Leviore who can be ripped through time at seemingly random intervals...

From the moment eleven-year-old Freya Thorstensen awakes in the middle of an enchanted forest, she has no memory of anything that came before. Adopted by a family drenched in magic, in a kingdom where nightmares are born, Freya has no way of knowing if she is surrounded by saviors or traitors — until it’s too late.

For millennia the Leviores have guarded the parallel dimension of Aithéras, making sure that the dark fae don’t escape to come bump in the night. But as the war between the Leviores and the darkness escalates, the veil of Aithéras has begun to thin. As Belle slowly realizes the enormity of her role in the fate of humanity, Freya struggles to survive in a realm that is slow to accept her as their own.

When their two stories intersect across the fabric of time itself, it heralds the downfall of the world they know, and the one they’re about to discover: a place where the truth behind myths and faerie tales plunges more fear and darkness into the heart than the legends themselves.

A Light in the Shadows of Time is the first book in the Aithéras Chronicles by A. B. Regan.