Summer Chase is very good at hiding.
She has to be. The cameras in this city don’t just watch what you do — they listen to what you say. One slipped word near the wrong corner, one conversation with a friend about what you are, and you’re tagged. Summer has fire powers in a world that’s hunting people exactly like her, so she built her whole career around knowing what the system can see. That way, it can never see her.
It’s worked. For years, it’s worked.
Then people start disappearing. Humans with powers, gone quiet, no trace. Summer does what she can without blatantly telling people. She hosts security webinars monthly to try to get the word out. That’s the thing about this world. How do you find others like you when you can’t say it out loud? She’s been doing it anyway, quietly, training the ones she finds to survive. Until she finds out someone has infiltrated her webinars, putting her attendees on target lists.
And Koda — her best friend, the person she trusts more than anyone alive, who she’s been happily in a friends-with-benefits situation for eight years — is done waiting for her to catch on. He wants more. He wants all of it.
She wants to say yes. But yes means telling him what she is. Only one Fae knows that secret.
And that Fae, Dune Raydn, just came back into her life.
Ten years gone. Her first love. He loved her once. Everything was about to change, he was going to tell her he loved her. But that was when her powers first appeared. Uncontrolled and fueled by her own excitement, Summer burned Dune and he left without another word.
Now he’s back, and she doesn’t know if he’s trying to expose her or protect her since the first thing he does when he sees her is plant a surveillance bug on her.
She’s spent ten years making herself impossible to find. She’s about to discover that didn’t work.
Set in an urban city that just happens to have a dash of magic and some Fae running things — a great place to start if fantasy has always felt a little intimidating. Slow burn, love triangle, and a cliffhanger that will make you immediately need book two.
