Thérèse learned early that survival meant keeping secrets-especially when your mother is the White Witch. Her escape into Narnia should have been the end of her story. Instead, it's only the beginning. At a beaver's dam, she meets four siblings from another world, bound by prophecy to save a kingdom she barely understands. She has no destiny, no prophecy, no place in their legend-but she fights alongside them anyway. When Father Christmas gives her a ring and tells her to never take it off, she doesn't ask why. When Edmund Pevensie looks at her like she's more than her mother's daughter, she doesn't pull away. And when Narnia's freedom comes at a price she never expected to pay, she makes a choice that will echo across centuries. But time in Narnia moves differently than in other worlds. Kings and queens rise and fall. Kingdoms crumble and rebuild. And some sacrifices have consequences that span lifetimes-consequences that can steal everything you are and leave only fragments behind. Now, with her past a puzzle and her future uncertain, Thérèse must navigate uncharted waters where sea serpents aren't the only monsters lurking in the deep. As old darkness resurfaces and new threats emerge, she faces a truth she's been running from since the beginning: You can't outrun your blood. But maybe-just maybe-you can choose what to do with it ────୨ৎ──── EDMUND PEVENSIE X FEM OC