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Synopsis

Nineteen-year-old Evelyn Cross has two lives. By day, she's just another girl in the fading town of Ashford—pulling espresso shots at Bean & Gone, pretending her dad isn't dissolving into a bottle, and trying to remember what "normal" is supposed to feel like. By night, she hunts monsters.

Under the radar of the town that pities her for the fire that killed her mother, Evelyn trains with Jacob Pierce (JP)—the ex-soldier who dragged her out of those flames and turned her into a weapon. Together, they track the demons that slip through the cracks, fighting back the darkness no one else can see.

Evelyn has always known she's… different. She heals too fast. Hits too hard. Survives what should break her. But when a series of disappearances rocks Ashford and demons begin wearing the same burned symbol—and whispering her name—Evelyn realizes the monsters aren't circling the town. They're circling her.

As an old cult called the Ashen Veil rises, their attacks feel less like battles and more like experiments—measuring her limits, pushing her fear, testing something inside her she doesn't understand. And when a stranger steps out of the shadows claiming to know what she is, Evelyn's carefully controlled world fractures.

Her mentor is keeping secrets. Her blood refuses to behave. And something waiting in the dark has decided she's the key it's been hunting for. To save the people she loves, Evelyn will have to face what really burned the night her mother died, and what's been waking inside her ever since.

Because the Veil isn't trying to kill her. They're trying to open her.