--- Born in the slums and stolen from a life she never knew, Light was raised underground—trained as a weapon, shaped by science, and fused with something not of this world. Inside her lives Zoe, a sentient life force that grows stronger with every breath she takes.But Light was never meant to fight for Earth. She was made to face what’s coming.When she escapes the lab, the truth unravels: her captors murdered her family to claim Zoe, and the creature within her may be the only hope of survival—or the beginning of Earth’s end. Lost in the desert, she meets Nyro, a boy with fire in his blood, eyes like obsidian, and a past rooted beneath a sacred tree. Unknown to them both, he is the son of the fallen sun goddess, Neriah, and the carrier of the second life force—the one that takes.Together, they are destined to reunite the powers that once formed a goddess. But when love ignites between them, Light and Nyro must choose: save the Earth or destroy it in the name of the gods that made them.She breathes life.He burns the world.And together, they were never meant to exist.---