Ariana Parker wanted only one thing — a peaceful life. After years of running from a past filled with betrayal, secrets, and a scientific tragedy the world still doesn’t understand, she joins Novaris hoping to become invisible again. But peace disappears the moment she comes face-to-face with Ethan Blake. Her childhood friend. Her first heartbreak. The boy who once made her feel safe — and the reason she left everything behind eight years ago. Now Ethan is the powerful CEO of Novaris, obsessed with solving the mystery of XI:N, the impossible neural chair that changed the world before exploding and killing the man who tried to control it. To everyone else, Ariana is just his executive assistant. Calm. Quiet. Ordinary. But when the chair wakes again and nearly destroys the lab, Ariana stops it in seconds — revealing that she knows far more than she should. Now Ethan has questions. Lucian Vale, the brilliant researcher, has suspicions. And Ariana has a secret that could destroy the life she fought so hard to rebuild. Because the chair isn’t just searching for power. It is searching for a match. And for one terrifying second… It found her.