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In a world where war is controlled by sacrifice, peace always comes at a cost.
Aria Rowe has spent her life surviving a system that demands a life for every failure. When a mission goes wrong, someone must be given up - and she's seen first hand what that does to the people left behind. Determined to end the cycle, Aria volunteers for a dangerous mission to find an ancient relic said to have the power to stop the war for good.
Kael Thorne is everything she's been taught to hate. A disciplined soldier of the Dominion, he follows orders without question - even when those orders demand blood. When he's assigned to retrieve the same relic, their paths collide in violence, distrust, and a war neither of them can escape.
But when survival forces them into an uneasy alliance, the lines between enemy and ally begin to blur.
As they cross battle-scarred lands and uncover the truth behind the relic, Aria and Kael find something far more dangerous than war: each other.
Because the relic doesn't just end wars.
It demands a sacrifice.
And this time, the cost might be everything they are - and everything they could have been.