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A BITE OF THE SKY
Some patterns aren't meant to be studied. Some stars shouldn't be seen.
1961. Juniper Vránová is a criminology student with a taste for structure, order, and academic control. Emrys Llewellyn, her infuriating rival since childhood, studies astrophysics with the grace of a firework-brilliant, chaotic, and impossible to ignore. When Juniper is awarded an anonymous scholarship for international travel-enough for two tickets-she makes a strategic choice: bring Emrys, and crush him on foreign ground.
She chooses Paris.
At first, it's exactly what she expected: museums, architecture, and the slow drip of Emrys being wrong in public. But then they find the painting. A star that shouldn't exist. A building that hadn't yet been built. A message only visible in ultraviolet.
From the Louvre to the catacombs, a trail unfolds-old symbols, whispered frequencies, and a cult that doesn't worship the stars but listens to them. Beneath the Paris they can see is another one entirely. And someone is waiting there.
As Emrys begins to change-drawn deeper into the hum of something vast-Juniper must face the truth: this trip was never about proving herself. It was a setup. And if she doesn't act fast, she won't just lose to him.
She'll lose him.