Blood of Celentra

Sahora has survived everything, hunger, violence, the brutal streets of Serlane. She trusts no one. She belongs to no one.  Until the day strangers start hunting her with one command: Celentra must remain frozen.  And the day a Seer drags her through a portal into a world trapped in silence.Inside that frozen realm, Sahora learns the truth she never asked for:  Kathera, the beloved Empress, lives inside her.  And Sahora is her Soulbearer.To wake the land and revive Kathera, Sahora must recover the shattered Stone of Ilina, ten god-forged shards scattered across a dying world. Each shard they claim breathes life back into Celentra... and awakens ancient powers determined to stop her.At her side gather unlikely allies:  - Cyrus, a reckless mapmaker with too many secrets  - Briar, earth-bound and hiding a destiny of her own  - Castor, the Empress's legendary guard  - And Oliver: once sworn to kill her, now bound to her by a Soulfate he never wanted, hearing her thoughts, steadying the storm rising in her bloodBut in the shadows, a dark Seer named Carlosa sharpens prophecy like a blade, preparing to destroy Kathera the moment she returns.Hunted, haunted, and carrying a queen's heartbeat beside her own, Sahora must choose:  become the weapon she was forged into...  or the warrior who brings a world back to life.