Reality is not broken. It’s working exactly as designed.

Aaliyah Kanae learned early how institutions really work: who they protect, who they punish, and who they pretend not to see. At her elite Atlanta boarding school, survival means obedience—and keeping her volatile younger sister, Selene, out of sight and out of trouble.

Then Fellowship burns.

Ancient warriors tear through the campus hunting a bloodline that was never supposed to wake. In the ruins, Aaliyah discovers the truth her teachers died to keep hidden: there are no humans. Every person she has ever known is an elf—an immortal being descended from gods—trapped inside a false world engineered to make them believe they’re mortal.

Aging. Sickness. Death.
None of it is natural.

Atlanta isn’t a city. It’s an extraction site.
Schools aren’t sanctuaries. They’re sorting mechanisms.
And the institutions that claim to protect divine children exist to decide which ones are allowed to survive.

After the attack, the resistance offers safety at Rehoboth Military Institute. What they deliver is a cage. Selene is torn from Aaliyah’s arms and thrown into a brutal combat program designed to weaponize her instability—because the power waking inside her sister is too dangerous to be left free.

As the lies unravel, Aaliyah learns the system didn’t just steal their future—it may have stolen the truth about her past, including what really happened to the father who vanished when they were children.

Now Aaliyah must navigate a world where every authority is compromised, every faction is lying, and love is treated as a liability. She must learn to wield power she was never meant to remember. She must choose between compliance and rebellion. And she must save Selene from a system that doesn’t just want obedience—

it wants erasure.

Because the greatest lie was never mortality.
It was the belief that awakening would save you.

In a world built to keep you small, remembering who you are isn’t liberation.

It’s a threat.