Paranormal

ASHBOUND

by Neilcolas

Mara Ellery doesn't remember the fire that took her childhood — just a scholarship she never applied for, a pendant that shouldn't exist, and eleven years of silence where her past should be.At an elite university built on old money and older secrets, Mara is drawn into the orbit of Jude Halden: guarded, magnetic, and quietly connected to a trust he doesn't even know funds her education. Every hour she spends near him, that pendant turns warm against her skin. It has never done that for anyone else.But Jude isn't the only one watching her. As Mara pulls on a thread someone clearly wants left buried, she starts to sense a second presence circling the edges of her carefully rebuilt life — someone tied to the same buried past, pulling her toward a choice she doesn't yet understand she'll have to make.Every person she asks for help gives her the same rehearsed warning to stop looking. She doesn't stop.This slow-burn campus mystery follows Mara as sealed records, hidden identities, and a secret world she was never meant to touch start closing in — and the truth may not let her choose just one path back to it.The fire that took her memory is still out there, waiting to be found. Getting it back might cost her everything, including who she thought she'd fall for.

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