Marked By Fate - Paperback

Marked by Fate follows Rayanne Zeltner, an eighteen-year-old girl in Hernando, Mississippi, who has spent her whole life seeing things no one else will acknowledge - shadows at the edges of rooms, warnings in dreams, a name whispered through the dark she can never quite place. After the death of her beloved grandfather Papa, who raised her on cryptic fables about three sisters born on the same day carrying gifts of sight, healing, and voice, Rayanne's world begins to fracture. Two fallen angels, Gene and Zander, arrive in her life claiming her as their "paramour" - a soul bright enough to have drawn them across centuries - while a mysterious blue-eyed figure named Rafe watches from the tree line, present but never fully reachable. As Rayanne navigates the competing attentions of all three, she uncovers a deeper truth: her best friend Kaylie is actually her twin sister, and a third girl, Bayleigh - quiet, fierce, and carrying everything alone on instinct - may be the missing piece of the trinity Papa's fable always described.

The stakes sharpen as Kaylie goes missing, Bayleigh resurfaces and disappears again, and Rayanne begins to understand that the "curse" haunting her family for generations is not supernatural punishment but the inherited silence of people who loved each other too much to say the dangerous thing in time - a lesson driven home by Gram's journal, which mirrors Rayanne's own situation with unsettling precision.