The summons was supposed to bring justice. Instead, it awakens something far older. Called to testify at the Baron’s trial, Callen Nasinth enters the capital expecting politics and danger—but not the pulse of ancient power beneath its streets. Noble factions hunt for the Baron’s lost research. Whispers spread of transformed aristocrats hiding in plain sight. And someone has left a message only the Nightshade would understand. As Nora’s visions warn of blood on marble floors and the drift thrums with something waking below the city, Callen must navigate treacherous alliances, buried corruption, and the ghosts of the man he used to be. Because the capital isn’t just watching him. It remembers him. And it wants him back.