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In the floating city of Casveth, magic is currency, status, and survival. If you're born Gilded - blessed with power - the sky is yours. If you're born Blank - empty, magicless - the gutters are.
Seren Vale has spent twenty years pretending to be nothing.
She's very good at it.
By day she's a relic runner, smuggling stolen enchantments through the lower city's rotting scaffold streets. By night she survives. But Seren carries a secret more dangerous than any relic she's ever touched: she isn't Blank. She's a Null - a living void who can swallow magic whole, cancel it with bare skin, unravel the spells that hold Casveth's entire world together.
Including the ones that keep the city in the sky.
When a heist gone wrong exposes her ability in front of the most dangerous audience imaginable, Seren finds herself hunted by the Crown Prince of the Ashvyr Empire - cold, ruthless, and devastatingly beautiful in the way that only truly terrible things are.
Prince Caelen doesn't want her dead. He wants something worse.
He wants her help.
An ancient curse is devouring the royal bloodline from the inside. Only a Null can break it. And Caelen, who has spent three years ordering the execution of every Null in the empire, has just discovered that his salvation wears a thief's leathers and a mouth full of sharp words.
They hate each other immediately.
It doesn't stay that way.