The Chase Within

Crestford Academy was just another place to blend in. Another mask to wear.

To her classmates, she was Selene Escueta-the quiet transferee, brilliant but distant. But in the underworld, she was known by a different name.

Eira. The Ice Reaper.

A name spoken with hushed reverence, carved into the whispers of men who feared the cold edge of her blade. She had been raised for power, sculpted into something lethal before she could even understand what it meant to be human.

She had no interest in school life, no desire for friendships or attachment. But then she met Elias Montijo.

The son of her family's greatest enemy. A boy who, like her, carried the weight of an inherited war. He was calm, unreadable, yet his gaze told her he wasn't fooled by her mask. She should have ignored him. Should have walked away.

Their families were enemies. Rivals built on a misunderstanding that neither of them created. But Selene had learned one thing about the underworld: truth was always buried beneath the bodies of the innocent.

And when the first piece of her parents' murder unraveled, she knew what she had to do.

That night, Eira disappeared.

No traces. No goodbyes.

Not as a girl who ran away.

But as a ghost who had finally begun her hunt.