Elara Cole always believed she was ordinary — until the morning her shadow smiled back at her. Strange symbols begin to bloom across her skin, her phone dies whenever she touches it, and a pendant hums with a heartbeat of its own. When a dark stranger calls her Daughter of Dust, Elara’s world shatters. She soon discovers she is the last descendant of an ancient order that once guarded the balance between light and shadow. Now hunted by forces older than time — and torn between two men with secrets of their own — Elara must uncover the truth about her forgotten bloodline before the darkness claims her soul. Because sometimes, the brightest light is born from the dust.