In Aevryn, starborn children are magic-bound until age 5, when they’re conscripted into the King’s Guard for a lifetime of service. But with the realm’s memory suppressed through a substance in the water supply, history has been rewritten, its rightful line erased, and truths buried, and long since forgotten.

Elyssara, raised in the slums and waiting to exact vengeance on the people who took her parents, has spent her life in the shadows—until her powers erupt during a rescue mission, revealing her as the Lightborne: a figure from prophecy destined to bring either salvation or ruin.

Now hunted by the Guard, Elyssara must flee with the help of a stranger: Kael, a brooding warrior from the Shadow Wastes who bears a prophecy of his own—he must kill the Lightborne or watch the world fall. But when their paths cross, a forbidden bond ignites between them: a fated tether, long believed extinct. As the two reluctantly travel together, tension simmers into desire, even as Kael remains torn between his duty to his imprisoned sister and the girl fate demands he destroy.

As Elyssara’s divine magic begins to awaken—and ancient relics start to surface—so too do long-buried truths. They uncover evidence of a hidden bloodline, a lost crown, and a tyrant who orchestrated the systematic erasure of memory to maintain power. With the realm’s balance fracturing, Elyssara and Kael must decide whether to follow the prophecies written in the stars—or write their own.

But the gods are not quiet. And some truths were buried for a reason.