Aurelia's Wake

Raven Hawthorne

Maya Sterling arrives on the set of Aurelia's Wake with nothing but a vintage leather kit, a five-year-old betrayal she refuses to think about before noon, and an eye for color no synthetic palette can replicate. She's hired to fix a failing alien look — and within a day, she's caught the attention of Julian Vane, the reclusive, magnetic lead actor who tells her, quietly, that her chemistry is the only real thing on the set.\ That attention comes at a cost. Senior artist Julie Anderson — bubbly to the stars, venomous to everyone else — sees Maya as a threat to fourteen years of seniority, and she's not above sabotage to prove it. As Maya is promoted over her, threatened, and finally attacked in the one place she thought was safe — her own formulas — she has to rebuild what was destroyed from memory, in the dark, alone, with everything riding oHired to fix a failing alien look, a color specialist finds forbidden chemistry — and a rival determined to destroy her.n getting it exactly right.\ Underneath the industrial tension of a film set at war with itself, something slower and more dangerous is building between Maya and Julian: unspoken, entirely professional, and impossible to stop.⁶