Ava Rose has lived her whole life on the edge of two worlds; the seen and the unseen. To everyone else, she’s just another scholarship student trying to survive her first year at St. Eden University. But to the shadows that whisper her name, she’s something else entirely. Something rare. Born with a heart that falters and eyes that sometimes flash violet when no one’s looking, Ava has always known she was different. She’s felt it in the electric stillness before a storm, in the way mirrors seem to wait for her reflection to catch up, and in the unexplainable bursts of light that come with her fear. She calls it illness. The world might call it magic. Her life changes when she meets Ryder and Skylar Vale mysterious twins who move through the world like fire and glass. There’s something not entirely human about them, and something in Ryder’s ember-colored eyes stirs a part of Ava she doesn’t understand. Drawn together by secrets neither of them can escape, Ava begins to unravel the truth about herself about what she is, what she can do, and what’s been sleeping inside her all along. But St. Eden is not the sanctuary it seems. Beneath its manicured lawns and glittering halls lies a campus divided between humans and supernaturals; werewolves, fae, vampires, and others who walk in silence. Something ancient is stirring among them, something that remembers Ava’s kind… even if she doesn’t. As Ava’s fragile body weakens and her power awakens, she must decide who to trust and who to fear before the secrets she carries burn through the fragile peace holding their world together. Because some hearts aren’t meant to beat forever. Some are meant to ignite.