One word decides who leaves alive: you, his people or noone

A pale-blue vortex tears you from your ordinary life and hurls you beneath the vaults of a city hidden under stone. There waits Seb—a twenty-six-year-old dark mage with red eyes and a plan best left unspoken. His runes are cold, his seal burns scarlet, and the two of you must decide who will read whom first—and what the price of access to the truth will be. Beyond the dome the siege thunders; within lie questions that cannot be answered honestly. And the closer you draw to the circle’s center, the sharper the sense that the other world did not come for you by accident.