The last time Cora saw Kaelen D’Rae, she was ten years old, crouched behind a shattered altar as her mother screamed beneath his fangs—bound by a blood contract that branded her a slave. Now, seventeen years later, Cora returns—not as a child, but as a weapon cloaked in elegance and lies. She walks into the gilded halls of the Supernatural Council, where vampires, werewolves, fae, and witches negotiate peace over bloodwine and secrets, and claims a seat as a neutral emissary. Her mission: expose