The Midnight Pact

<p>The girl who wanted an ordinary life is about to become the most hunted being in the kingdom.</p><p>In the quiet corners of a forgotten bookshop <strong>Elara Vespera</strong> tried to keep her life small. She shelved books swept floors smiled at customers... and prayed the strange symbol on her skin-the Mark she'd been told never to reveal-would stay quiet. But the Mark was never meant to sleep and Elara was never meant to remain unseen.</p><p>When a terrifying surge of power erupts from her during a routine night shift everything she feared becomes real. <strong>The Hunters</strong> ruthless trackers sworn to wipe out Mark-bearers descend on her town. Their weapons are forged from null-magic-sharp enough to unmake her with a single strike. Their orders are simple.</p><p>Find the girl with the Mark.<br>Erase her.</p><p>Elara's only chance at survival arrives in the form of <strong>Lucian Draegor</strong> a brooding exiled vampire prince with a past tangled in the monarchy's darkest experiments. He's dangerous unreadable... and the first person who hasn't tried to kill her on sight. Bound together by necessity the two flee into the frozen wilderness as the kingdom begins to crumble under forces older than its own throne.</p><p>But running is only the beginning.</p><p>As they cross shattered villages haunted ruins and rebel outposts hidden in the Hollows Elara discovers that the Mark she carries is unlike any seen in centuries. It can shield. It can destroy. It can <strong>awaken</strong> ancient structures built by a civilization long dead. It remembers things she was never meant to know-and it pulls her toward a destiny she wants nothing to do with.</p><p>Lucian knows more than he says.<br>The Hunters close in from every direction.<br>And far above them on the ridges of the Aramour Range a shadowed figure watches with unsettling interest.</p><p><strong>Sorren</strong> a void-wielding remnant of the old Aramour order has plans for Elara-plans tied to the river of power her Mark was fractured from. To him she is not a girl. She is proof. The last unbroken bearer of a power he believes must either be contained... or ended.</p><p>Drawn to a ruined mountain basin where magic still breathes beneath the stone Elara must confront a truth that overturns everything she has ever believed:</p><p>The Mark is not a curse.<br>It is not a blessing.<br>It is the surviving fragment of something vaster-<br>Something broken long before she was born.</p><p>And Sorren intends to finish what Aramour started.</p><p>With the Hunters closing in the mountain waking and the Mark pushing her toward impossible choices Elara must decide what she is willing to fight for-and what she is willing to become.</p><p><strong>The Last Unbroken Mark</strong> launches the sweeping addictive Vespera Saga with sharp tension dark secrets slow-burn chemistry haunted ruins and a heroine who refuses to let the world decide who she is. Perfect for fans of romantic fantasy ancient magic and stories where the power inside you is both your salvation and your undoing.</p><p>Her story begins with a single rule:<br><strong>Run.</strong><br>But soon she'll have to learn the second rule-<br><strong>Stand.</strong></p><p>Because the world is breaking...<br>and Elara Vespera might be the only one left who can hold the pieces together.</p>