Ayla Storme’s life was ordinary in the way most lives are. School. Friends. Bad mornings. A future she hadn’t thought much about.Then one morning, the sky cracked open.In the space of a few terrifying minutes, everything Ayla knows disappears. Time freezes. The world breaks. And she’s pulled into a place that shouldn’t exist — a floating city hidden between realities, where people talk about bloodlines and power like they’re facts, not myths.That’s where she learns the truth: Ayla is the Shard — a living mistake, a convergence of forces that were never meant to exist in one person. And now that she’s been found, she’s being hunted.Her only chance at survival lies with three strangers who don’t trust easily and carry secrets of their own. They know this world. They know the danger. And they know what happens to people like her.As Ayla struggles to understand what she’s becoming, she’s forced to face a question she never asked before:If your existence can destroy everything… do you run from it — or learn to fight?Because the world is already watching.And it won’t let her stay human for long.