The Ruined Heir. Hunted by Fear. Forged by Power. - Lauren Keenan

She was never meant to survive.

Tirien has spent her life unseen, until the day everything fractures.

When a power she cannot control awakens, fear turns quickly to accusation, and she is taken, bound, and locked away in a tower built to contain what others do not understand. But survival was never meant to be passive. When she escapes, it is not rescue that frees her, it is something far more dangerous.

Now alone and hunted, Tirien is forced onto the road, where every step forward is a choice between hiding what she is... or risking everything to survive. Yet the further she travels, the more the world begins to answer her in quiet, unsettling ways. The earth shifts beneath her feet. The wind listens. And something older than fear begins to stir within her.

Drawn toward the distant borderlands, where the mortal world begins to fray, Tirien must decide whether her power is something to bury... or something to become. Because the road ahead is no longer just escape. It is the beginning of everything.