Zara Lansing has spent her life surviving—first her father’s fists, then the violent cruelty of a wealthy family that treated her as disposable. At seventeen, she forged her way into the Air Force. At twenty-six, she works security for one of the richest families in the city. She knows how to keep her head down, how to stay invisible, how to survive.But Zara has a secret: she can read anything. Every language. Every code. Every forgotten word. And when she stumbles across a book titled Zara Reads the World—a text her employers have been guarding for generations—her gift stops being her own.The book isn’t just a relic. It’s prophecy. One that says if she turns the last page, she’ll never return.Now, Zara is trapped between two families: the one that abandoned her but still pulls strings in the shadows, and the one that owns her present, unwilling to let her walk away. The only person standing between her and complete ruin is Tank—the guarded, calculating heir who speaks fifty languages but sees her more clearly than anyone ever has.As danger closes in, Zara must decide: will she run again, or claim the story that has already written her name?