Her parents are dead and the only thing they left behind is a ring she once refused to wear. Marlowe is the first witch born into the Akubani bloodline with magic so weak it barely exists. For years she held onto the hope that it would wake up on its own, that she wouldn't have to accept what the ring represented. But hope doesn't bring back the dead and it doesn't stop what comes next either. The moment she puts the ring on everything changes. Her magic stirs for the first time and the world she has been hiding from comes crashing through her door. She ends up at Vox Academy with no real plan, a ring that everyone suddenly wants and an unexplainable pull toward a boy she cannot shake no matter how hard she tries. Dane Faulkner is gorgeous and deeply unsettling and the connection between them feels too real to ignore. But the more she learns about him the worse it gets. He uses dark magic. Forbidden and rare. The kind that corrupts a person slowly from the inside out. And that is not even what destroys her. What destroys her is finding out what he belongs to. What they did. Who gave the order that made her an orphan. Her fated bond is built on blood and betrayal and they have a name. The Kyrexis.