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    'Go, Tess.'

    Those were his final words before pushing her into the portal—the last gift of a dying lance, bought with blood and a dead life.

    Now trapped in the dark, suffocating subterranean vaults of the Sanctuary, Tessia Eralith quickly learns that survival is its own form of execution. Ostracised by her surviving people, blamed for her parents’ high treason, and bearing the unbearable crush of Arthur Leywin’s death, Tessia is left completely alone in a world that despises her existence.

    Distrusted by Lord Virion, shunned by Alice and Ellie, and haunted by the ghost of the boy who traded his future for hers, Tessia sinks into a quiet, shattering despair—struggling to understand how to keep breathing in a life paid for with the ultimate sacrifice.

    A raw exploration of grief, survivor's guilt, and isolation in the dark written in first person.

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