Sorrow & Strangers

Jeanette Rose and Alexis Rune

Book 2 of Avalon University

Grieving and hollowed out after the losses of her first year, Summer returns to Avalon University hoping to disappear into her studies, but old enemies, new threats, and the pull of a masked, watchful figure won't let her stay hidden for long. As she trains to control her growing powers and rebuild her fractured sense of self, she's drawn deeper into a web of political danger involving rival kings and a found family of allies with their own secrets. The book leans heavily into grief and healing alongside its slow-simmering romantic tension. It ends on a major unresolved twist that sets up the next installment.