THE AWAKENING

The blood remembers. The magic returns. The gate is waking.
The eight Drieaga siblings have always known they were different-marked by power, connected by something ancient, and bound by a legacy older than the world itself. Elemental force runs in their veins. Psychic echoes stir in their minds. But even they do not know the full truth.
Not yet.
Deep beneath the ruins of Raelthar, something is stirring. An ancient gate, long thought dormant, begins to tremble once more. Whispers slip into dreams. Shadows move where light should live. And with them come the creatures once lost to myth-fae slipping through cracks in the veil, vampires hunting in twilight alleys, dragons waking beneath the stone, and darker beings that have no name at all.
At the centre of it is Auren Drieaga-the eldest, the anchor, the one who hears the gate calling. Its magic twists his, reshaping what he is. But the more he resists, the more it reaches for him... and for his blood.
As secrets unravel and tensions rise, an unlikely ally appears-Kaela Veyne, a girl with a forgotten lineage and a gift that can uncover the truth by touch. Her presence threatens to tear the siblings apart-or become the key to holding them together.
The world is changing. The curse is waking.
And what waits beyond the gate is not content to stay sealed.
They were born with power.
Now they must decide what they're willing to become to survive it.