A kingdom on the brink.
A prophecy that demands a life.
A choice that could change everything.
Aelia is everything a noblewoman is expected to be—graceful, obedient, and unseen. Yet as a foreigner without magic, she is treated as little more than a servant in fine clothes. Tasked with gathering rare herbs to sustain the queen’s healing potions, she struggles as the land itself begins to fail, poisoned by the relentless shadow attacks waged by a mysterious enemy known as the Shade.
When a prophecy declares that Aelia must give her life to save the kingdom, she refuses to become a sacrifice. With nowhere else to turn, she makes a desperate choice—to run straight into the territory of the very force they fear.
But the Shade is not what she expected.
Dark, powerful, and unsettlingly calm, he offers her something no one else ever has: a choice. As Aelia begins to question everything she has been taught, new horrors rise from the depths and a dangerous new potion changes the stakes once more.
Now, caught between duty, survival, and a growing connection she cannot ignore, Aelia must decide what she is truly willing to sacrifice—and who she is willing to save.
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