The wardens: blood oath 🌑

Nova Nyor-Bell was eight years old when a car crash stole both her parents, leaving her alone in the world with nothing but a silver necklace - the only piece of her mother she could hold onto. By nine, she was pulled into the shadows of The Wardens, a secretive organization that trains children to protect a world that doesn't even know they exist. Disciplined, silent, and deadly, Nova quickly becomes one of the most skilled in her generation, mastering survival, observation, and decision-making under pressure.

Now sixteen, she moves through life like a shadow - sharp, focused, untouchable. She trusts no one, lets no one close... except for Kai Rivera, her seventeen-year-old best friend and partner in the Wardens' dangerous world. With his warm smile, light brown hair, and teasing confidence, he's impossible to ignore. He sees the parts of her she hides, the cracks she keeps carefully covered, and slowly, over the weeks and months, he becomes her anchor in a world that demands perfection and obedience.

But attachments are forbidden. Love is weakness. And the Wardens have rules.

When Nova uncovers secrets about her parents' past - about the lives they led, the missions they undertook, and the truth behind their deaths - she begins to realize her life was never truly her own. Torn between loyalty to the Wardens and the growing feelings she cannot deny, she must decide: obey the order that raised her, or follow her heart into a dangerous, uncertain future.

Trained to survive, prepared to fight, but unprepared to love... Nova Nyor-Bell is about to learn that some rules are meant to be broken, and some bonds are impossible to resist.