For seven generations, Mira's family has carried a blood curse that drains their life force drop by drop, and she's finally found the one person who can break it—Kieran, a silver-eyed mage with power beyond measure. But freedom demands sacrifice, and when the ritual goes catastrophically wrong, Mira discovers her family has made a choice: her life in exchange for his survival. Betrayed and bound to a fate worse than the curse itself, she must uncover why the mage she trusted has destroyed everything she loved, and why her family believed saving him was worth condemning her to darkness. Now Mira faces an impossible decision: accept her role as the sacrificial lamb, or burn down everything—family, legacy, and the psychic who shattered her world—to reclaim her stolen life. Some betrayals run deeper than blood, and some curses are easier to break than trust.