Nightborne: The Hidden Blade

Vanya Freycroft never thought her quiet life with her aunt would end in blood and shadows. But on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, everything changed.

Her aunt, Lilith, disappears without a trace, presumed dead.

Her hallucinations begin.
Except they aren't hallucinations.

Vision of the people around her flicker, their faces morphing into towering shadow-creatures with silver eyes, long, twisting limbs, and a hunger that drains memories from the living. These beings, called Fades, have roamed the world unseen until for some reason Vanya suddenly gains the cursed ability to see them.

When she intervenes a Fade's attack, a violent surge of unfamiliar power erupts. Before she can understand what she's unleashed, she's intercepted by Reed Crewthorne, a hunter from an elite order known as the Nightbornes.

A misunderstanding turns their first encounter into a brutal fight, and when Vanya wakes, she finds herself inside Nightvaine Academy, a hidden training ground for Nightbornes.

Vanya gets drafted into the academy as a new recruit under the cold, infuriating supervision of Reed, whose arrogance is matched only by how dangerously attractive he is. Their forced partnership and constant banter ignites tension that's anything but subtle... and very much forbidden.

Vanya is drawn into a world of forbidden power, ruthless rules, and tension that sparks as fiercely as it threatens to destroy them both.

But Nightvaine's walls hold more secrets than weapons. Its ruling council, the Crescent, seeks a legendary weapon and believes the key lies in Vanya's bloodline... and in the memories she doesn't remember losing.

As truths surface and loyalties blur, Vanya must decide how much of herself she's willing to sacrifice, because seeing the truth comes at a price.