I came to Alaska for a fresh start. Instead, I discovered I was designed to save—or destroy—the paranormal world.
The Voss Expedition Research Institute wasn't on any map I'd seen. My acceptance letter arrived faster than I had expected, and the interviewer knew my name before I had a chance to introduce myself. But I was desperate for answers about the strange marks on my skin and the wrongness that's followed me my entire life.
I expected archaeology. I found a conspiracy.
My mother—brilliant paranormal researcher Dr. Eleanor Voss—didn't die in an accident. She was executed by the Council for discovering something they've hidden for millennia: an ancient consciousness imprisoned beneath Arctic ice. Something so powerful that paranormal beings bound it thousands of years ago and have been desperately maintaining that seal ever since.
She also discovered I'm not human. I'm a hybrid, engineered by the Council to be a weapon. They orchestrated my birth, funded my mother's research, and expected her to hand me over for study. Instead, she chose defiance. She hid me, severed her paranormal bonds, and died protecting secrets I'm only beginning to understand.
Now four impossible men are bonded to me in ways that violate every paranormal law:
Kael—the expedition leader whose touch ignites marks on my skin
Silas—the feral tracker whose wolf recognizes something ancient in me
Dr. Voss—my mentor, my biological father, haunted by twenty years of grief
Riven—the Council's investigator sent to capture me, now betraying everything he was trained to be
When I make contact with the entity beneath the ice, it offers me a choice the Council never expected: not to break the seal or defend it, but to renegotiate. To let it exist in distributed form across paranormal consciousness—including mine.
The Council calls me an abomination. A threat to millennia of carefully maintained control.
They're right.
Because I'm not just breaking their laws. I'm making them obsolete. And the four men bonded to me? They're not my mates. We're something unprecedented: a paranormal constellation, five souls carrying ancient consciousness that will either transform the paranormal world—or destroy it.
My mother died believing love was stronger than fear. Now I have to prove she was right.