They marked her. Bound her. Expected her to break.

Lilith Ashford arrived at Vespers University with nothing—no power, no allies, no idea that she was walking into a world that wanted her dead. Registered as a weak Fae, she's immediately claimed by the most powerful family in supernatural society. Bound by blood magic to their heir. Stripped naked before the entire student body and branded with a sigil that ties her life to his.

Caspian Thorne is everything she should hate—cold, controlled, and raised to see her kind as abominations. As the heir to a thousand-year dynasty, he was supposed to use her and discard her. He wasn't supposed to want her.

The bond between them was meant to be a leash. Instead, it becomes a circuit—two sources of power feeding each other, growing stronger, becoming something the ancient families have never seen and cannot control.

When Lilith's true nature awakens, she discovers she's not the weak creature they dismissed. She's a Class Seven hybrid. The most powerful classification. The thing they've been hunting to extinction for centuries.

Now the supernatural elite face an impossible choice: destroy her and risk war with the heir who's fallen for her, or let her live and watch everything they've built burn.

The old families wanted to eliminate her kind.

They should have checked what kind she was first.