Marked By The Dreamwalker

Emily Carter has spent sixteen years being invisible, the strange, quiet girl who draws symbols she doesn't understand and dreams of fires she can't explain. She doesn't know that the blood running through her veins carries the power of celestial gods. She doesn't know that the nightmares haunting her every night are memories. And she has no idea that the boy who has never once looked at her in three years of high school has been watching her for a very different reason than she thinks. She is the last Seeker, a hybrid human-celestial born to locate lost magic, ancient portals, and powers the world has spent centuries trying to bury. The spirit of the Seeker lives inside her, dormant and waiting, and now that it has begun to awaken, every dark force hunting the supernatural world has locked onto her like a signal fire in the night. Nathan Reed is not the golden boy Westbrook High believes him to be. Beneath the easy confidence and the football captain reputation lives something far older and far more dangerous, a Shadow Prince, cursed and bound, assigned as Emily's guardian long before either of them understood what that meant. Warriors of his bloodline are sworn to protect supernatural lineages with their lives. But Nathan was also sent with a second, darker purpose: to eliminate the Seeker before her power grew beyond control. The moment he looks into her eyes and speaks the words that crack her world open, he makes a choice that cannot be undone. He chooses her. But choosing Emily means choosing everything that comes with her. The Voidborn, ancient creatures born from the darkness between worlds, are already moving. Terrifying, hollow-eyed, and relentless, they have one singular mission: prevent the Shadow King from ever being found. Scattered and imprisoned across the collapsing borders between realms, the Shadow King is the only being alive with the power to destroy the Voidborn completely. And the only person in existence capable of locating him, unlocking the portals that lead to him, and opening the gate between worlds that will set him free is Emily. She is the last Gatekeeper. The last Starblood. The last heir to a forgotten realm that has been waiting for her return. As Emily's dormant abilities tear open, dreamwalking through other people's minds, sensing lost magic beneath the surface of the ordinary world, and unleashing shockwaves of raw celestial power she doesn't yet know how to control, she and Nathan are thrust into a hunt that moves faster than either of them is prepared for. The Voidborn grow bolder. The masked hunters close in. And the mind-link forged between Emily and Nathan the moment he first touched her skin pulls them deeper into each other with every secret that surfaces and every battle that draws blood. Emily must choose between the quiet, invisible life she has always known and the terrifying, extraordinary truth of what she actually is. And Nathan must decide whether the curse binding him to darkness is stronger than the pull of the girl he was supposed to destroy and couldn't. The Shadow King is waiting. The gate is already cracking open. And the last Seeker is finally, dangerously awake.