Everyone knows what a healer can do to save a body. Amari Stalva knows exactly how much one can survive.
Amari spent most of her life being underestimated. Hidden from high society despite being the sole daughter of one of the empire’s most powerful families, she is known to precious few as a delicate noblewoman and one of the rarest healers alive.
After she escapes the Ashen King, she chooses to join Solaris. Her new military squad expects their healer to keep them alive, not walk toward danger, teach frightened people how to fight, or look at cruelty and decide mercy has limits.
Then Solaris gives them a case that has swallowed thousands of lives.
Women and children have been disappearing across the empire for years. No one can explain how so many vanished without a clear trail. The files are bare, the patterns loose, and every day spent searching risks another name being added to the list.
The squad is talented, damaged, and barely functional. However, Amari refuses to write any of them off. She sees strength beneath panic and hurt, discipline beneath rage, and brilliance beneath shame. The longer they hunt together, the harder it becomes to tell whether she is simply their healer or the force quietly changing what all of them might become.
And Amari is hiding a significant danger none of them can fight for her.
One glance forged an inherent bond between her and the Ashen King, a connection believed extinct for generations. She ran from his palace but didn’t escape the pull between them. Hatred has not erased the attraction that created the bond, distance has not made it disappear, and the king on the other end has never been a man who accepts losing what he claimed.
Amari knows how to mend the broken. She knows how to punish monsters. What she does not know is how long she can keep building a future before the past reaches out and takes hold of it.
Heal the broken. Hunt the monsters. Protect the life she chose.
And never let the Ashen King decide who owns her.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Dangerous heroines
- Deadly healers
- Found family
- Misfit squads
- Moral grayness
- Hidden power
- Dark bonds
- Dangerous men
- Political intrigue
- Slow-burn romance
- Brutal fantasy
