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FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-NINE DAYS.
That's how long Nyra has survived the dark of the cells on strict calculations and a single memory: Kaleb, the star-born Veyari boy who shared his bread behind the kitchens. In a palace of predators, he was her only safe variable.
When the iron gates grind open, Nyra's world shatters.
Young girls are dragged into the glittering upper world for the Ascension Trials, a brutal public arena designed to harvest human emotion and fuel the elite's celestial power.
And leading the nightmare are the rival heirs of the estate.
KALEB: The boy she survived for has returned from the trenches wrapped in military steel. His cold eyes look right through her. To cement his standing with the Capital, he locks her into the arena.
KAI: The dangerous older brother sent away in disgrace is back. Nyra has completely blocked him from her memory, but the volatile rebel remembers her. He is a broken anomaly-a hybrid born of star and human blood-carrying a dark, celestial curse.
Nyra is no chosen savior; she is a prisoner fighting for breath. But as the trials push her to the brink, she realizes she is the missing piece in a lethal, cosmic equation.
She is destined to collide with Kai, a monster whose very presence carries a death sentence for a mortal soul.
A prophecy dictates their alignment, but the curse warns that their convergence will destroy them both.
To beat a broken system, Nyra must outsmart the commander who abandoned her, and find a way to survive the hybrid who would rather watch the universe burn than let her go.
The math is broken. The variables are lethal. Welcome to the proving grounds of The Twin Ascendants.