The Eighth Lineage

Trust is a weapon. So is she.

Vespera Astor has trained her whole life for one mission: infiltrate Aster Academy — the castle fortress where seven ancient bloodlines rule the world from the shadows — and bring it down from the inside. She has a forged name, a flawless cover, and no memory of ever being anyone else.

What she doesn't have is a plan for Aldevar Voss.

Heir to the most powerful lineage at Aster. A Senate member at twenty-two. Brilliant, watchful, and far too good at seeing the things she's built her life around hiding. Wanting him isn't just dangerous — it's a betrayal of everything she was made to be.

Then a first-year turns up dead, her final recording cut short by a scream, and the trail leads to a lineage struck from every record. A name no one will speak.

The eighth.

The deeper Vespera digs, the closer the truth comes to her own reflection — and the more she fears the enemy she was sent to destroy may be the only family she has left.

Some secrets are written in blood. Hers was written before she was born.