She unlocked a prison buried in stone-never knowing the chains held back both the end of the world... and awakened a deep love that had been lost through time.Deep beneath a monastery sealed by centuries of silence, Jessica Trainer uncovers a prison no one was meant to find.What she awakens there is not just a man - but a force bound in chains older than memory.Haunted by visions she doesn't understand, drawn to a stranger whose presence feels achingly familiar, Jessica is thrust into a world where myth bleeds into reality. Shadow armies hunt them through the streets of Rome. Angels watch with patient judgment. And in the storm that follows, love long buried begins to stir again.But the man she freed carries secrets as dangerous as the enemies closing in. His scars are not only on his flesh, and his past may be the very prophecy she has spent her life denying.In the battle between fate and choice, sanctuary and ruin, one truth emerges: Some loves are written across centuries. Some awakenings come at the cost of the world.Horseman Book I The Awakening is a dark fantasy thriller of secrets, survival, and a love powerful enough to shake heaven and earth.