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Liora Ashryn has spent her life trying to avoid her family's legacy. The Valeharts influence governments, shape economies, and move through history like a shadow at dusk. She wants no part of it, until her grandfather Ansel Roethe dies and she collapses at his funeral.
When she wakes, she is in 1914, inhabiting the body of an ancestor on the brink of a decision that could alter the course of a world war.
Liora soon discovers the truth of the Valehart bloodline. Once per generation, one heir from each of the Twelve Houses can enter the lives of their ancestors at moments of crisis. Known as the Passage, it has allowed generations to quietly redirect history. But this time, something is wrong. She is not the only heir of her generation to manifest the power.
Heirs are dying during their Passages. Entire Houses are vanishing as though they never existed. More members of the Twelve are awakening than the system was ever designed to sustain. The balance that has governed history for centuries is beginning to fracture.
As Liora learns to navigate the lives of her ancestors, she discovers that intervention is never clean. Every adjustment creates consequences she cannot fully predict. The past resists her. The present reacts. And the cost of miscalculation grows heavier with each attempt.
Allies blur into rivals. Observation becomes influence. Influence becomes instability.
By the time Liora understands the limits of her control, the damage has already begun to surface. The Passage was meant to preserve history. Instead, it may be unraveling it.
History is no longer waiting.
And the first fracture has already begun.