Seren Caelum is Moonblooded: she can touch a memory and live it, take it, even rewrite what survives. When Prince Alric Thorne summons her to the ruined Temple of Stilled Stars, he asks for the one thing no court healer can give him—the night his brother died. But the moment Seren reaches for the truth, she discovers the same void in her own past… and a burning sigil on her skin that she doesn’t remember earning.
The name that rises from the darkness—Vaeriel—shouldn’t exist in any record. Yet it echoes in the Queen’s dreams, lurks in sealed archives, and feeds on everything the realm has chosen to forget. Now Seren is caught between a Crown that would chain her gift and a prince who can’t trust his own mind. Every memory they reclaim tightens the noose: a hidden order erased from history, a ritual paid for in blood, and an ancient force that wants to be remembered back into power.
Bound by secrecy and a dangerous pull neither of them can deny, Seren and Alric race through cursed temples, forbidden vaults, and treacherous courts to uncover what was stolen—before the next Blood Moon opens the door for something that will unmake them all.