A Tear In The Firmament

She has never been able to control her magic.He has built his entire life around control.Now they share a soul.Azalaïs expected to leave her graduation without a Vigil. Instead, the ceremony ends in magical fire, a thousand-foot fall, and an impossible Joining with the most powerful warrior alive.Lucien Ward is cold, horned, infuriatingly beautiful—and the last man who would ever willingly bind himself to another Ent. But the bond Aza created cannot be broken. He hears every thought she fails to contain, feels every emotion she cannot hide, and shares sensations neither of them wants to acknowledge. There is no distance that can separate them, no privacy between them, and no surviving the other’s death with their sanity intact.Aza refuses to believe her best friend died in the destruction of the academy. Lucien has his own reasons for uncovering who caused it. Their only lead draws them beyond the human kingdoms and into the dangerous realm of the fae, where ancient magic is beginning to fracture—and someone is determined to keep the truth buried.To survive, Aza and Lucien must learn to wield their combined power without surrendering themselves to it. But every danger pulls them closer, every secret deepens their bond, and duty is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from desire.Lucien insists that whatever grows between them will remain strictly practical.It would be considerably more convincing if Aza couldn’t hear him think.