Warrior Academy was built on one principle: survive at all costs. For seventeen-year-old Lilith Thorn, survival has never been a challenge. Raised within Irvea's most ruthless military institution, she has spent years learning how to fight, endure pain, and bury every weakness before it can be used against her. Among the kingdom's deadliest trainees, her future has already been decided: graduate, become a warrior, and protect the city from the dangers lurking beyond its borders. What she has never learned is how to let go of her past. As patrol warriors begin vanishing without explanation and unsettling rumors spread through the Academy halls, Lilith's final year of training rapidly turns into something far more dangerous than simulated combat. Because whatever is waiting outside Irvea is no longer dormant. And the deeper Lilith is pulled into the growing mystery, the more she begins to realize that some truths were buried for a reason. And some should never be uncovered at all.