The kingdom of Andrasia was built on blood, fear, and the destruction of magic. Seventeen years ago, a grieving sorceress cursed the royal bloodline before burning herself alive beneath an apple tree stained with the bodies of her murdered daughters. Her final prophecy promised the fall of a kingdom and the rise of a girl born from death itself.

That girl is Gisele.

Hunted since childhood for the dangerous magic living beneath her skin, Gisele has spent years surviving alone in the wilderness, avoiding the King’s deadly Trackers and hiding the chaos she cannot control. Every time her power escapes, forests burn, earth splits apart, and another piece of the monster the kingdom fears threatens to emerge.

When a mysterious stranger with golden eyes captures her after a violent magical outbreak, Gisele expects imprisonment, torture, or death. Instead, she finds herself trapped beside a man who seems strangely immune to her power and far too interested in her survival. Sharp-tongued, infuriating, and dangerously unreadable, he refuses to reveal his true intentions while pulling her deeper into secrets the kingdom buried long ago.