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.
Story Description
She can heal almost anything. But someone made sure she would never know who she is.
Eighteen-year-old Gemma arrives at Briarhaven University with a plan: train as a pack doctor, survive her overprotective brothers, and discover why the charm she's worn since infancy has finally opened.
Then patients begin arriving with dark, branching marks beneath their skin—and Gemma's healing does something no shifter's should.
With Brenda, her sharp-tongued mage best friend, Gemma starts digging into records someone desperately wants buried. What they uncover points toward a royal family erased from history—and an infant who wasn't supposed to survive.
Meanwhile, Adrian, a twenty-eight-year-old professor and the ruling Alpha's younger brother, becomes increasingly difficult to ignore. Their connection grows through quiet conversations and dangerous discoveries. But he already has a partner, and his family's secrets may be tangled with hers.
Rowan offers an easier kind of attention. Her academic rival, Nicollette, offers trouble. And the people watching Gemma offer no second chances.
Someone tried to erase her bloodline eighteen years ago.
