Book Description
She came to Ashworth Academy to study the curse. She didn't know she was the curse.
Dr. Elara Vance has spent seven years researching the Ashworth Bloodline—a supernatural lineage that supposedly died out in 1892. Her dissertation could rewrite paranormal history. Her academic rival, Professor Caelan Ashworth, has spent those same seven years trying to bury her research.
He's also spent seven years ignoring the pull in his chest every time she walks into a room.
When Elara uncovers a forbidden archive beneath the academy, she finds her own name in a blood ledger dated 1847. The Ashworth Bloodline didn't die out. It went into hiding. And she is the last living heir to the very curse she's been studying.
The bond between them isn't instant. It builds—a headache that becomes a whisper, a whisper that becomes a voice, a voice that becomes impossible to ignore. By the time they realize what's happening, the secret society that has controlled Ashworth Academy for centuries has already marked her for death.
Caelan has a choice: protect the society that raised him, or protect the woman whose blood could destroy everything he's sworn to uphold.
Elara has a choice too: run from the curse that chose her, or become the weapon it was always meant to be.
Some bonds are written in the stars. Theirs was written in blood.