The Empty Vessel: 1

The truth is locked away inside her memories-dangerous, unstable, and timed for optimal destruction. Lucy Lovell has nothing: no family, no memories, no future, and a name that is not her own. The white walls of the psychiatric facility are all she has ever known; the meals are drugged, the nurses are indifferent, and there's a strange girl named Meredith who whispers of magic and soulmates coming to rescue her. Lucy doesn't believe her. She can't-not when the threat of hope is too much to bear. When four men begin staking out the facility, hunting the rogue who has been using magic in the human realm, Lucy's grip on reality begins to slip. Their auras blaze with an energy she can't explain, and their touch sparks an unfamiliar warmth that threatens to burn down the walls she's built. Forced into the custody of these men, Lucy is dragged from the sterile void of the facility and into a realm she can't remember. Conflicts ignite, tension spikes, and the hunters begin to realize Lucy is more than a lost supernatural. As pieces of her identity surface in dreamlike sequences of terror and tenderness, Lucy must decide whether these men are her protectors, her captors, or threads in a web she was never meant to escape. Magic is real. Her past is haunting her. And the truth they have been chasing for years has the potential to destroy everything.