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On her eighteenth birthday, Ivy realizes something has changed.
People stare.
The world feels... aware of her.
A man named Cain begins watching her, every day, every hour.
He never eats.
Never looks away.
He calls himself her protector.
But protection isn't the only thing circling her.
Rowan sees her differently.
Not as someone to guard...
but as something to claim.
Ivy doesn't yet understand the power she carries.
Only that she is the only one capable of containing it...
and that everyone else wants to use her to unleash it.
Caught between a guardian bound to protect her
and a predator determined to possess her,
Ivy must decide who to trust...
before the power inside her chooses for her.