Cara Obinna Akim has always carried a secret — a hunger she can’t name, and a past her mother refuses to explain. When she’s accused of stealing her best friend’s fiancé, the scandal erupts across Nigeria. But it isn’t the betrayal that changes everything; it’s the ancient relic she unknowingly awakens.
Now hunted by masked assassins, a restless compulsion that refuses to let her go and entangled in royal rituals, Clara must unravel a prophecy buried deep within the palace walls. The blood in her veins is not just noble, it’s dangerous. And someone will stop at nothing to silence it.
With a prince at her side, a dying ex-lover guarding her truth, and a council willing to erase history to protect its power, Clara must decide:
Run from the fire. Or become it.
