Born on the night the stars aligned beneath a full moon, Darian Cross entered the world with a heartbeat that stopped before it ever began. His soul slipped toward Duat, the realm of the dead, and did something no mortal soul had ever done.

It refused death.

In the silence between worlds, Anubis, the ancient guardian of souls, felt the defiance of that newborn spirit and made a choice no god was meant to make.

One forbidden act. One breath returned.

Fifteen years later, Darian Cross survives in Novaleria, a neon-caged city sealed beneath a massive dome, divided by towering iron rings, where the poor are trapped, the rich are untouchable, and the Obsidian Order decides who gets to exist.

Darian has spent his life trying to stay invisible. But the older he grows, the harder it becomes to ignore what is waking inside him…and what has been watching from the shadows.

Because Darian was always meant to become something.

Now he must decide what, before Novaleria decides for him.