Aiden Lioren, son of the Director of Magical Regulation, hunts illegal mages for the State in a city where every spark of power is monitored and controlled. Their official enemy: “Deviants,” unregistered magic users whose emotions make their powers unpredictable and “dangerous.”  

On his first night in the field, during a storm-soaked raid in the South Sector, Aiden feels a violent surge of electricity ripple through the city an anomaly that briefly blacks out an entire street. The source is an Electromancer Deviant, powerful and undisciplined, already targeted for capture or elimination under new State protocols.  

As Aiden rides with the enforcement unit into the chaos, he is determined to prove himself worthy of his father’s expectations and the Department’s ideology. What he doesn’t know yet is that the Deviant they’re hunting will shatter everything he believes about danger, control, and who truly threatens the city and that this forbidden enemy will soon become the person his heart refuses to let go.

This was never supposed to be this long. Nothing that matters truly ever is. What began in a basement that smelled like flour and rust became something I couldn't have named at chapter one: a story about what it costs to see clearly in a world built to obscure, and about what you find when you stop looking alone.


*Thank you for following it this far. Chapter one hundred deserved to be worth everything that came before it.


Chapter 101 - Chapter 100 – The Building:Part One: The Night Before