The first time Zara touches Riven, it feels like fire and ice carving her bones. At the Solstice Accord—a fragile truce between witches, wolves, vampires, and fae—she’s supposed to remain invisible, a ghost in silk and shadow. But when the High King demands a symbolic bond-signing with the “representative of the Wildbloods,” they force her forward. She has seconds to act. So she takes his hand—and the world explodes in light.