Darkest Legacy — Allyson Gottlieb

A spellbinding tale of doomed love and unforgivable betrayal



Part 1: Tamara Kingsley has a secret so big it threatens to destroy her stable, perfect life as headmistress of the Silvermist School of Magic for Girls. When she was barely out of high school, she fell in love with her best friend, helped him set into motion a plan to change the world--and then sent him to the hellish prison planet, Alpha. Now, twenty years later, he's escaped. And Tamara knows her time is about to run out.



Part 2--the missing story: Tamara thought she would be free when Valentine went to prison. She's supposedly a hero, so why does she feel like the scum of the earth? Her climb out of the hole she dug herself is a long and arduous one, with Valentine haunting her at every turn. As for the man himself? He'll spend the next twenty years planning and scheming, waiting for the opportunity to take his vengeance from the woman who betrayed him.



Previously published as two separate novellas, this volume also includes a few short stories about some of the other people affected by Tamara and Valentine's decisions.