In Love With A Shadow — Carmen Fox

My job as a mortality consultant lacks excitement. Unfortunately, if your one notable talent is to “read” people's life expectancies, your options are limited. Everything changes the day my father disappears. Suddenly, the world's fate he used to guard falls into my hands, and dang, there's no instruction manual.

The impossibly attractive Max Remus asks to join my search for Dad, but his motives are far from transparent. Max's existence is steeped in death -- the dark kind my father always warned me about -- yet I find his lifeless eyes oddly captivating.

So much so that I can't help wonder if our journey through the scorching heat of Africa and the cool silence of the Darkness might end up costing me more than my heart.

(Novella)