She is the youngest Chief Guide of the White Tower—precise, composed, seemingly unbreakable.
He is the first-ever SSS-ranked Sentinel, locked away for ten years—a volatile force no one dares to tame. During their first mental convergence, Elise hears a scream echoing from the depths of Thorne’s fractured mind—her sister’s dying cry.
Why does he resonate with her?
And who, exactly, is her mirror empathy replicating? Before the truth can fully unravel, the Tower orders Elise to brand him with a psychic seal—to strip him of all emotion and turn him into a weapon.
But instead, on the brink of collapse, Thorne binds his volatile mental core to hers—creating an irreversible, parasitic contract. “You don’t belong to the Tower,” he tells her.
And for the first time, she realizes—she never did. Love is resonance.
It’s ignition.
It’s rebellion.