GUardian crossover Book 1 The Star-Crossed Curse

A year ago, they lost everything. The Special Investigation Department, a group of misfits who protected the balance between the human world and the hidden realm of Dixing, was scattered by grief. Their leaders, the brilliant Chief Zhao Yunlan and the enigmatic Black-Cloaked Envoy Shen Wei, were gone-a sacrifice that sealed away the darkness.

But in the year that followed, a quiet, restless pulse began to beat beneath the world's surface. A dark energy curse, once contained within Zhao Yunlan, didn't die with him. It grew, waiting for the right moment to reawaken a forgotten power.

Now, a reunion in Dixing brings the broken team back together, not to remember the past, but to face a future they never saw coming. With a weakened Shen Wei back from the brink and Zhao Yunlan's soul tethered to a new body, they are far from whole. As their world begins to intersect with a galaxy rebuilding after a war of its own, they discover their fight is not over. It has just begun.

A long-dead curse, a reawakened power, and two worlds on a collision course. How do you save a universe when the very force that can restore it also threatens to consume you?