Malakai Reynaxi awakens to a life that isn't his. No memories. No past. Only a dangerous, unexplainable power-and a persistent feeling that something vital has been taken from him. Then he meets her. Akari Xion is a stranger... and yet, she feels anything but. Something about her pulls at him in ways he can't understand-like a memory just out of reach, a name on the tip of his tongue. The more time he spends with her, the stronger the feeling becomes: He knows her. But Akari won't tell him how. Guarded and elusive, she keeps pieces of the truth just beyond his grasp, even as their connection deepens into something neither of them can ignore. And as fragments of Malakai's past begin to surface, one question burns louder than the rest- What isn't she telling him? Because someone out there wants his past to stay buried. And if Malakai remembers... the past waiting for him might cost him the only person who ever felt like home.