Some marks are sacred. Some are curses. Princess Aurel never wanted either. Born beneath a prophecy she refuses to obey, Princess Aurel is fated to die on the Night of Ascension—the night when the twin moons aligned and appeared as one in the sky. She is to be a royal sacrifice to gods she’s never believed in. But Aurel doesn’t run from fear. She runs from fate.In the forbidden wilds, she finds him: a silver-blooded man collapsed beneath the twin moons. His presence is impossible. And when his blood touches her skin, an ancient mark awakens—burning, alive, and bound to something far greater than either of them.
This is no ordinary power. It’s untamed, consuming… and hers. Now hunted by her kingdom and stalked by the Veilborn, creatures born of ruin and forgotten realms, Aurel is bound to the last Moonborn prince, an heir to a world long lost. As they flee deeper into the mountains and toward war, secrets unravel about his shattered kingdom, the Nexus between realms, and the truth behind Aurel’s birth. Because her mark isn’t just a gift. It’s a key.
To power. To a written prophecy.
And to a destiny even the stars never saw coming.
“They feared the blood the moon had sown,
Exiled her flesh, denied their own.
But when the end came close and wild,
They owed their lives to the moon’s last child.”