The Commanding Illusion (Vielborne Empire Trilogy #1)

They erased her past to protect the future. Now, the truth is awakening and it won't be silent.

Zalona always knew she didn't belong, that she wouldn't fit in simply by existing. With her rare ghost-pale skin, dark hair, and piercing blue eyes that resemble frozen starlight.

Cold, luminous, and far too old to belong to a teenage girl. She struggles to understand why she feels watched and why mirrors sometimes feel unfamiliar.

Living with the strict and secretive Hazel family, she was told that her parents died when she was young; but she has been living a lie. Adopted into a quiet family on the edge of nowhere, she's always felt out of place, haunted by fragments of dreams she can't explain and a power she's been told doesn't exist.

Her name isn't even her own.

She is Zalona Dolores, last heir to an ancient bloodline. Born of magic, shaped by prophecy and hidden from a world that fears what she might become. But don't forget, secrets don't stay buried forever.

As visions sharpen and forgotten memories ignite, a mysterious boy with ties to her past arrives, carrying pieces of a puzzle she never knew existed.

Together, they must outrun those who want her silenced and uncover a legacy others would kill to keep hidden.

The world teeters on the edge of something dark and Zalona must choose to remain the broken girl they tried to keep asleep, or rise as the storm she was born to be.