About this book:

From an ordinary college student buried in textbooks and campus life, Maya Sinclair's world is shattered on her twenty-first birthday by a mysterious locket and a terrifying attack. Propelled into a hidden world of ancient magic and warring Houses, Maya discovers she is the last heir to House Solara, a lineage tied to the power of the sun and hunted by the malevolent House Nocturne. Saved by a brooding protector, Lucien, bound by an ancient oath to her mother, Maya is thrust into a secret sanctuary and a crash course in controlling burgeoning magical abilities and understanding the deadly politics of the Houses.

As assassins pursue her and betrayals run deep within the very Council meant to unite the Houses, Maya grapples with the chilling prophecy of the "child of shadow and light," a riddle tied to her absent mother and the mystery of her father's identity. Facing elemental trials and uncovering devastating truths in ancient prophecies, Maya learns her mother, the Sun Queen, is not dead but imprisoned within a powerful artifact, and that her assassin is her own twin sister, twisted by Nocturne's dark influence. The war escalates as Maya confronts Seraphina, the ruthless Nocturne Matriarch, and uncovers a deeper conspiracy involving a forgotten pact and the primordial essence of magic itself.

In a series of harrowing battles and profound sacrifices, Maya must master her dual nature, embracing both her light and shadow, to face the Abyss Below, a chaotic force unleashed by betrayal, and ultimately contain the corrupted First Sun. Forged in the fires of loss and armed with the truth of her lineage and her mother's final containment within a living artifact, Maya emerges as the undisputed Sun Queen, the Child of Twilight. Bearing the Heartstone and the captured essence of her enemies, she must now navigate the fractured political landscape, unite the warring Houses under a new pact of balance, and lead a world teetering on the brink of chaos towards a precarious new dawn, where the consequences of her power, and the scars of the past, will forever shape her reign.