Lyra Varelle is everything her college admires — lively, charming, endlessly kind. But behind her radiant smile lies a secret she can’t explain: she feels nothing. No sorrow, no anger, not even joy. Her laughter is learned, her warmth borrowed… until the day a transfer student arrives — and his scent awakens something buried deep within her blood.
Aiden Vale, calm and distant, seems to know more about Lyra than she does herself. One fleeting encounter shatters her illusion of humanity — her reflection flickers crimson, her heart beats to a rhythm not her own, and the hunger she’s never known threatens to consume her.
Haunted by dreams of a dying queen who calls her my little dawn, Lyra is thrust into a secret world she never knew existed — a realm of moonlit cities, immortal bloodlines, and a legacy of sacrifice. She is the lost daughter of the slain Vampire Queen… and the key to a kingdom on the edge of ruin.
But the deeper she sinks into this truth, the more tangled her heart becomes — between Aiden, the knight sworn to protect her, and Cael, his dangerously beautiful twin, who should be her enemy yet seems to understand her emptiness better than anyone.
As love, loyalty, and destiny collide, Lyra must face the cruelest truth:
To save her world, a queen must die.
And this time, it might be her.