The Last Nova

In a world arranged like a perfect circle, nothing is meant to break the pattern.

Seventeen-year-old Nora has spent her life in a district where orphans like her are treated like worthless dirt, the air tastes wrong, the food is worse, and survival is the only ambition allowed. The Capitol gleams at the center of it all, distant and untouchable, a promise never meant for people like her.

But when Nora stumbles upon a truth the government has buried deep, her life fractures overnight. Torn from the only home and only friend she's ever had, sent to a place that should not exist, she begins to uncover abilities, secrets, and lies that rewrite everything she thought she knew about herself and her world.

Some secrets are powerful enough to burn an empire.

A nova doesn't just shine.
It explodes.
And Nora may be the last one left, the spark no one saw coming