He died in a palace of politics and fire — a weapon traded by the powerful. Reborn at eighteen with the ghost of a snow leopard at his shoulder, Gideon Schuster refuses to be anyone's pawn again. He will take the throne of thorns or die trying. Valentin Vitale is supposed to be content: brilliant, late-blooming surgeon, quietly tending a provincial world between long shifts and the memory of his adopted parents. Then the universe decides otherwise. At twenty-four Valentin wakes up as a guide — eight years late and awkwardly powerful — and it throws his perfectly ordinary life into a dangerous orbit. When Valentin rescues a broken, feverish Gideon from a flood after a capsule crash, he thinks he's saved an injured teen. When fire turns to rebirth and the two minds brush, they discover a compatibility that is more than fate: Gideon is a Black Sentinel — not just rare, but lethal, and he remembers everything. One of them wants comfort and a quieter life. The other wants an empire of vengeance. Together they will teach each other how to become both: guide and sentinel, doctor and weapon, sanctuary and storm. They will tip the balance of power in a star-system that feeds on secrets. This is a reborn revenge romance: slow-burning devotion, ruthless tactics, clinical surgeries, and catastrophic politics. Snow leopards and white hawks. Power reclaimed. Lives remade.

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