Around the world, magic is woven into everyday life.
From Europe's elemental academies to Asia's ancestral rune schools and the sprawling network of North American training grounds, children ages ten to seventeen spend every summer in camps designed to teach them how to control magic-or survive without it. What most teens consider a yearly obligation, Emera has always treated as something far more serious. Raised by her aunt in a quiet Michigan town, she has spent every summer at Camp Aurelia, doing everything she can to understand a magic that has never quite behaved the way it should.
Emera has never believed she was powerful.
If anything, she thinks she's broken.
Her magic is unpredictable-strong one moment, silent the next, never consistent, never normal. While other students cast clean, sharp spells, Emera's magic feels like static: buzzing, restless, wrong. She hides the misfires. She hides the strange reactions. She hides the dream echoes that haunt her nights-fragmented memories that couldn't possibly be hers. And the faint symbols that sometimes flicker beneath her skin? She shoves her sleeves down and tells herself they're just afterimages from spells taught too late at night.
The counselors watch her.
Her aunt worries.
Emera, has no reason to suspect anything strange is woven into her destiny. She doesn't know about the spell cast the night she was born, or the ancient bond rooted deep within her magic. She doesn't sense the thread of fate quietly tightening with every breath.
As the spells protecting her begin to fracture and the dream echoes grow stronger, and Emera's Awakening approaches-she stands on the brink of a truth she was never meant to discover as it surges to the surface.
Whispers of ancient prophecy swirl-rumors of a forgotten magic, long feared, long hunted.
Because she is only half of something bigger.
Something powerful.
Something the world believed extinct.
She is one half of a Twinborn-a rare, magical phenomenon in which identical twins inherit a split ancient power so potent the realms once trembled beneath it.
A pairing so powerful that prophecy warns their Awakening could reshape-or destroy-the very fabric of the realms. A power so ancient and so feared that the realms once went to war to control it.
One twin carries Creation.
The other carries Destruction.
As the mark beneath her skin strengthens, when fate tightens its grip, as her magic swells past the point of control, and as secrets begin to unravel around her, Emera finally stands face-to-face with the destiny that's been chasing her since birth.
And the collision of destiny and fate, the power she doesn't understand, and the path she never expected, will ignite a chain of events that changes everything.
When destiny rises, when fate reveals its hand, and when Emera finally sees the world for what it truly is- the collision will change everything.
When destiny and fate finally collide, the world will never be the same.
