Elle has spent her life trying to stay invisible—surviving the man who raised her and the strange presence that flickers beneath her skin. But the night she finally runs, the world she knows fractures, revealing another one beneath it.

 

Dragged through a portal into the realm of Elisora, Elle is thrust into Ashbel, a place where witches are shaped through trials, secrets, and blood. Her magic—volatile, ancient, and nothing like the others’—draws attention she doesn’t want and questions she can’t answer.

As she struggles to control the magic waking inside her, Elle is pulled into the dangerous politics of the ruling Houses, and into the orbit of a shadowed prince whose loyalty is as uncertain as his intentions. Whispers follow her. Prophecies stir. And the truth about who she is — and why she was taken — begins to unravel..

But in a world where magic chooses its wielder, Elle’s power isn’t just awakening.

 

It’s remembering.

 

And it may burn more than her past to ash.