AniMage: The Chosen Velkha

Before the flame, there was silence.
Before the prophecy, there was a girl who did not want to be chosen.

Aelle has spent her life hidden in the forest, far from the world that fears her kind. Born with the rare ability to wield both flame and frost, she is an AniMage-part wolf, part elemental-and a threat to those who want it.

But when a Seeker stumbles into her world, everything begins to unravel. Ryker, her closest friend, begins to change. Theo, a stranger bound to the earth, watches her with eyes that see too much. And Justin, a Seeker sworn to destroy her, becomes something far more dangerous: someone she might trust.

As war brews and ancient prophecies awaken, Aelle must choose between vengeance and peace, between the fire in her blood and the love she never expected. But peace always demands a price.

And some flames were never meant to be tamed.

Book One of the AniMage series. Expect elemental magic, slow-burn bonds, morally gray characters, and a heroine who doesn't want to be chosen-but burns anyway.