Echo J. Tollridge

What do you fear more? The girl with the power to kill demons? Or the boy with the power to become one?

Ophelia has spent her life running from what she is—the last Valksha of Veladriel, born with magic that was never meant to survive. When the Kyriegard Order offers her a place among their ranks, she seizes the chance to carve out a future on her own terms. But war is coming, and the ghosts of her past refuse to stay buried.

Theodin has spent his life fighting against what he is. A warrior of the Kyriegard, he is discipline and restraint, steel wrapped in silence. He has no past, no name beyond what the Order has given him. But when he is paired with Ophelia, the fragile balance he has built begins to crack.

Bound by an unshakable tether neither of them understands, Ophelia and Theodin are thrust into a world of secrets and betrayals, where monsters do not always wear their true faces. As shadows rise and war looms, Ophelia will have to decide which is more dangerous—the enemies who hunt them, or the bond that ties her fate to Theodin’s.

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