When Shadows Learn to Heal

Visions that taste like ash. A ruler who covets apocalypse. A choice that will remake reality. Cera has spent five years bleeding prophecy for a king who treats her like a caged weapon. But when a vision of the ancient Rift-the cataclysm that devoured magic and shattered the world four hundred years ago-tears through her mind, everything changes. It proves she's not a seer at all, but a doorway. Now Malavore, the tyrant emperor who promises order through obedience, wants her as the key to reopening the Rift and restoring magic under human control. The resistance wants her as a weapon against him. And something patient and vast, trapped on the other side of reality's wound, whispers that it remembers her. Hunted by shadow-born monsters and betrayed by those she trusts, Cera joins a growing resistance on a desperate journey to find answers before Malavore finds her. But the closer they get to the truth about the Rift's shards, the clearer one terrible fact becomes: Magic didn't die. It was devoured. And the thing that consumed it is waking up hungry. The fate of a broken world rests on a question Cera can barely face: Is she the lock that keeps the door closed, or the key that opens it?