Brynn Elithra Sinn Mayfirst learned early that survival belongs to people who watch the room, keep a weapon close, and never expect power to arrive without a price.
At nineteen, she carries vivid red hair, violet eyes, old blood, and more inherited power than she has ever been encouraged to understand. She fights with steel because steel is honest. Magic, especially blood magic, asks more difficult questions about identity, control, legitimacy, and what happens when everything buried inside her begins wanting to live.
Brynn can be sharp, funny, suspicious, reckless, and fiercely protective. She is not waiting to be softened into someone easier to love. Her struggle is to decide which parts of herself are truly dangerous, which were merely feared by other people, and what she is willing to become when survival is no longer enough.
