Welcome To The Citadel.
Jade has spent her entire life being managed. Trained since childhood by the Citadel, collared to keep her own ability in check, and handed from Master to Master like a problem nobody wanted to solve, she’s never once been asked what she wants.
Then the Council assigns her to Nephrite, a squad of four Apex soldiers who don’t quite know what to do with a Biomancer and who don’t ask her to be anything other than exactly what she is. For the first time, someone hands her a key instead of a leash and calls it a choice.
Freedom, it turns out, comes with its own kind of danger. Learning to trust four very different men. Learning to want things for herself. Learning that being known isn’t the same as being safe, especially when the past she’s spent her whole life hiding starts clawing its way back into the light.
They were never supposed to feel like home. Somewhere between the sparring yards, the shared table, and four men who keep choosing her without being asked to, they do anyway.
But some collars aren’t made of crystal, and not everyone who wants Jade back wears a Council badge.
A slow-burn, why-choose fantasy romance book.