Verily Holbrook knows her life is over the moment her dead cat opens its eyes. Soulren magick is forbidden for a reason, and the power crackling through her hands marks her as exactly the kind of person villages fear, authorities hunt, and monsters are made from. Falcen is supposed to deliver her to Resonance Academy, not care what happens after she arrives. He is dangerous, controlled, and far too familiar with the rules Verily has already broken. Their forced journey should make them enemies. Instead, every argument, rescue, and reluctant act of trust draws them closer, until attraction becomes another risk neither can safely name. Resonance Academy promises training and control, but its lessons hide a crueler purpose. Students disappear. Voidspawn press against the borders of reality. Forbidden experiments leave evidence in locked corridors, and Falcen carries signs of a transformation he refuses to explain. As Verily learns what Soulren hunger can do, she must also decide whether the institution teaching her to survive is preparing her for a future or shaping her into a weapon. Falcen may be the one person who understands the danger inside her, but staying close to him means confronting the darkness consuming him too. With the Void drawing nearer and secrets buried beneath the academy beginning to surface, Verily's greatest threat may not be losing control of her magick. It may be discovering that the bond she cannot walk away from was never meant to survive what Resonance has planned.
Verily Holbrook knows her life is over the moment her dead cat opens its eyes. Soulren magick is forbidden for a reason, and the power crackling through her hands marks her as exactly the kind of person villages fear, authorities hunt, and monsters are made from. Falcen is supposed to deliver her...