The Promise Before Time

The Promise Before Time is a dark fantasy thriller that begins with a single, impossible choice. Before the first breath of creation, an angel shattered the laws of eternity for the chance to feel. His fall tore the Veil between worlds, and centuries later, that wound finds its anchor in Katarina Reid, a London history professor whose ordinary life is suddenly haunted by visions of wings, blood, and magnolia blossoms drifting like ash.

Across the ocean, Lucian-the fallen angel who traded perfection for hunger-awakens in New Orleans. Bound to Katarina by a promise older than language, he is both protector and predator, a force of obsession that draws the attention of the Veil's Wardens. As reality begins to stutter-time freezing on train platforms, skies cracking open above cities-Katarina must decide whether to run from the breach or embrace the dangerous bond that has made her its centre.

Nick Morgan blends cosmic horror with urban intimacy, weaving mythic imagery into rain-slick London streets and the humid, jazz-soaked nights of the French Quarter. The novel explores themes of love, obsession, and the cost of breaking perfection for the chance to feel. With cinematic prose and relentless atmosphere, The Promise Before Time delivers a story that is both terrifying and tender, asking readers to sit with the consequences of desire and the hunger that defines us.

For fans of dark fantasy, supernatural thrillers, and gothic romance, this is a novel that lingers long after the final page-an unforgettable collision of myth and modernity.