I love Matt.

He means the world to me.

So how do I tell him she's killing him?

He looks at me now, grinning. I want to reach over and push away the strands of gold hair that have fallen into his face.

As soon as I start to, though, she does it for me. Always fixing. Always a step ahead of me.

That's when he starts coughing. It rattles his whole body. She and I reach for him at the same time, but as he grabs for me, she pulls him in.

And as soon as she does, I see it:

He's been hiding something from me. Even now, he's turning away, guilt on his face. Even as he's hacking, he's desperately trying to hide this awful secret.

Then I catch *her* watching me.And her expression changes everything.

Every life born in Atlantis is controlled by the magic of soul mates, and Katrina Kamiya is no exception. She dreams of finding her soul mate by the time she's eighteen, and growing old with him the way only a lucky few get to. But when her oldest friend gets sick immediately after getting engaged, she starts to wonder what's happening to him - and begins to learn the horrible truth about why he's not getting any better.

Swans of Atlantis is the first book in the Matt and Kat series.