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She buried her real name at six years old, the same night the sea took everything.
Now she's back — not to grieve, not to hide, but to hunt.
Alexandra Caine doesn't exist anymore. At Starrion University, she's Alexa Ophfrey — heiress, new girl, nobody special. What nobody sees is what lives behind those calm green eyes. A hacker. A ghost. A force without a name. Identities stacked so deep that even the people closest to her only hold pieces of the puzzle.
Selina Caine was not just a mother. She was a shadow player at the highest level — the kind of powerful that doesn't appear in headlines or boardrooms. She was prepared. She was running.
They found the car. They never found Selina Caine.
Alexa has spent years preparing for this. Starrion University sits at the top of the elite world — Legacy families, old money, dangerous secrets. To most, it's the pinnacle. To Alexa, it's the bottom of the ladder she needs to climb to reach the truth.
Blend in. Build trust. Let them underestimate you.
But Starrion has its own secrets. And some of them are watching her back.
Elian Blackwood — Starrion's cold, brilliant king — can't shake the feeling that he's seen those eyes before.
And the people who destroyed everything Alexa loved are closer than she thinks.
The hunt has begun. But so has the countdown.
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