They buried her identity. They couldn't bury her power. Eighteen-year-old Gemma Bennett arrives at Briarhaven University with a plan: study medicine, survive her overprotective brothers, and discover why the enchanted charm found with her as an infant has finally opened. Then a routine classroom exercise exposes a healing gift unlike anything her professors have seen - and wounded shifters begin arriving with a sinister pattern beneath their skin. With Brenda, her sharp-tongued mage best friend, Gemma follows a trail of altered records, forbidden medical knowledge, and secrets the ruling families would rather leave untouched. The evidence points toward a lost royal bloodline - and suggests that being found outside a clinic eighteen years ago may have saved her life. Adrian Vale makes the search more complicated. A brilliant professor and the Alpha's younger brother, he challenges her, listens to her, and slowly becomes someone she trusts. He also has a partner. As their growing connection awakens an undeniable mate bond, Gemma must navigate feelings that threaten far more than her heart. Someone has been trying to recreate her power. Someone inside the hierarchy knows more about her disappearance than they admit. And now they know she survived. Caught between the family who raised her, the bloodline that could claim her, and a future others are eager to control, Gemma must uncover why she was erased - before the people responsible decide what to do with the woman she has become.
