When my fragile hope collided with power, I learned the price was far higher than I ever imagined. After one reckless, public declaration of love, everything I thought I owned-my future, my choices-were ripped away. Elieason swore he would save me, but the Creed answered with cruelties that left marks I could not name. In the hush behind sterile walls and bloody restraints, witchlights stirred; a masked Silvyan breathed a single name-Elsil-and the stars began to whisper that something inside me was waking. Torn between a man who would burn the world to keep me safe and strange forces that insist I am more than a mundus girl, I must survive, learn what I truly am, and decide whether love will save us-or destroy us both.
