Three years ago, Ashryn walked out of her burning village the only survivor of a massacre no one could explain. She never learned why. She never stopped hunting for the truth.
Darian has spent his life keeping an oath that already failed the people who needed it most — until a rare instinct leads him to a woman carrying something ancient and unexplained.
Centuries ago, seven guardians held the world together. One broke it instead. The other six died stopping him, and what was left of them scattered into seven human bloodlines, sleeping quietly for generations — until now.
Something is waking the fragments on purpose. And the closer Ashryn gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to ignore what she fears most: the power stirring inside her might not be one of the six that saved the world.
Some fires don’t go out. They wait to be awakened.
