He's loved her since he was five years old. And he will never feel her touch. Adara is literally fire, and Beck is ice. Even the barest hint of touch burns them both. He loves her with everything he has. Which is why he has to let her go. Beck and Adara were raised together at Vitolas Academy, an elite boarding school for elementals. They learned to add, subtract, read, and harness the powers flowing through them. They learned to fight. To become soldiers. Warriors. Hunters. But never lovers. It would hurt too much. It takes everything Beck has to keep Adara at arms' length. She deserves a life with physical affection, and that's a life he can't give her. Not without a miracle. A miracle that might come from the last source he expects—the monsters that he's spent his whole life learning to fight. The monsters that threaten his whole world. The monsters that hold the key to Adara's heart and soul.

She was raised to be a weapon. But no one has any idea how dangerous she really is. From the time Sonas could harness her element, she was driven to be stronger, faster, and more powerful than everyone else—at all costs. That doesn't change when she starts at Fysi Academy, a boarding school for elementals just like her. Except no one there is like her. She's hunted by an unnamed monster with no face, and there's no one strong enough to protect her. She has no choice but to save herself. Sonas has to rely on her own strength and skill to evade the thing waiting for her in the shadows, and when she falls… The truth will come out.

One kiss nearly killed them both. It was worth it. Beck has to convince Adara that they can make it work. That fiery pain every time they touch is worth it if they can be together. Adara has to convince Beck that there's a better way, and that she can find it. Because Eros has the answers. She's being hunted, courted, stalked by this monster who knows all her weaknesses. And all her strengths. Tempted by the one thing she wants more than anything else. Knowledge. But her quest for answers might just cost Beck everything. Everything he was. Everything he knows. Everything he is.

They call him the mind reader.Gavin calls it being observant.But nothing he can see will bring his friends back.Adara has deserted them. Beck and Sonas went after her. Gavin got left behind.Forgotten.His teachers are desperate. The students are desperate. The whole Elemental world is desperate because Adara, Beck and Sonas on the wrong side of this war is a dangerous thing, indeed.And everyone thought Gavin could find them.Gavin was used to being the normal one among giants. He was used to being left in their wake. He was not used to being the only one who could save them.But Beck and Sonas need him. Adara needs him.They've left him no choice. He'll have to be a giant among giants.Or they're all lost.

All hope is lost. Beck, Sonas, their team, their beloved teachers…Trapped in the darkness while madness claims them.Escape lays beyond the shadows, but one thing stands in their way.The love of Beck’s life.Adara.Except she’s not Adara. She’s changed. Terrifying. Powerful.Lost.