Ciaran is a reluctant guardian of ancient magic—a young man burdened with the power to conjure and control nightmares. Stoic, distant, and forged by the quiet cruelty he’s witnessed in humanity, he walks the line between apathy and duty. Though not heartless, his trust is scarce, his warmth even rarer. Cold steel behind storm-gray eyes, he’s a weapon tempered by loss and responsibility.

But everything shifts the night he meets her—a force of light and fire standing fearlessly in the face of darkness. In a world he long believed wasn’t worth saving, she becomes the first contradiction, and the one thing his nightmares can’t explain.