Fitting in has a price. Being different might cost everything.

Nia Lewis prefers books to people. Books don’t stare. Books don’t judge. Books don’t ask her to be louder, braver, or anything other than invisible.

Then Deacon Everette walks into her library.

Brilliant. Blunt. Unapologetically different.
And entirely uninterested in shrinking himself to make others comfortable.

Their connection is undeniable, but Nia has spent her life surviving by blending in. Falling for a man who refuses to fit the mold feels dangerous.

What’s truly dangerous, however, is the ancient book Nia accidentally uncovers — a relic whispered about in intelligence circles as the Book of Disasters. Now powerful forces are closing in. Her sister Sin, an undercover operative assigned to secure the book, is racing against time. And Deacon — a gifted geneticist with skills far beyond the lab — becomes Nia’s unexpected protector.

As secrets unravel and enemies step out of the shadows, Nia and Deacon are thrust into a deadly chase that spans hidden agendas, global manipulation, and a power far older than either of them imagined.

Because the world isn’t just afraid of different.

It hunts it.

And staying alive may require Nia to embrace the very thing she’s always hidden, herself.