The night her sister died, Jade felt it in her bones—the snap of a spine, the silence of a severed bond. Now, three years later, she walks into Blackthorn Keep not as a grieving sister, but as Lady Seris Vale, a diplomat from the Southern Witches’ Conclave, here to negotiate interspecies peace. Her real mission? Unearth proof that Alpha Kael Blackthorn ordered the assassination of her sister, a hybrid peace envoy, and expose him before the Supernatural Council. But the moment she steps into the