In a distant world where timelines fracture across planets and shadows remember what the living forget, a woman known only as Eva runs a bar built atop the bones of her past. She was born of a nearly extinct nomadic tribe—psychic, ageless, and hunted for their gifts—then sold into a brothel as a child after her people were slaughtered. Years later, she returned, alone and reborn, to reclaim the place where her sister died and turn it into a trap for those who still profit from stolen girls. The bar is her sanctuary and her weapon; those who enter rarely realize they’re stepping into a ritual.

Sylas, a man haunted by the sins of his father, arrives with secrets of his own. Once a boy who knew Eva before the fire in her eyes took form, he’s come back under a new name, unsure if she remembers him—or if she should. He’s not certain she’s the one behind the string of disappearances among the trade’s old guard, but the deeper he digs, the more certain he becomes. He’s torn between protecting her and aligning with her, knowing either could cost them both more than they’ve already lost.

Told through Sylas’s present-day perspective and Eva’s private journal entries, this slow-burning story of memory, vengeance, and unraveling identity explores what happens when two broken survivors cross paths again—not as the children they once were, but as the weapons they’ve become.