Codex.Mara

She used to be a god.

Not metaphorically. For millions of years, Mara built worlds and unmade them, commanded armies across galaxies, and watched civilizations rise and fall by her will alone. When infinite power finally became unbearable, she gave it up for something harder: a human life, and a body that matched who she actually was. Mara is a trans woman, and becoming one was the first real choice she ever made for herself.

Now she lives in Rivermark, Tennessee, bound by a set of rules only she wrote and only she can enforce against herself. She can't tell anyone what she is. She can't read minds. She can't bend the world to her will anymore - not without a cost that would break a lesser being.

Then she meets Ashley Douglas.

What starts as a car sale becomes a life neither of them expected - two women building something ordinary and real, while a federal case connecting a disgraced former president to the deaths of intelligence assets pulls Mara back toward the kind of danger she swore she was done with, and the Codex won't let her use her full power to fix it.