by Gemma Vale
Series: The Shattered Divine series #1
Community rating: 5/5 from 3 ratings.
Seren has survived nineteen years in the Hollow by keeping her shadows hidden.
But when they take a life she never meant to lose, she’s dragged into the gilded city above — a prisoner of the very institution hunting her kind to extinction.
Kael is a scholar of the shadows, sent to observe and contain. What he finds instead is a girl whose darkness doesn’t just answer her — it remembers something older than either of them.
As ancient shrines awaken beneath the city and a goddess stirs in the dark, Seren begins to understand that her shadows were never a curse. They were always a calling.
And the light will do anything to silence it.
She was never meant to survive. She was meant to become something else.
Genres: Dark Fantasy
Tropes: Hidden Power Awakening, Dark Secrets, Prison Setting, Coming Into Powers, Prison/Captivity, Gods
330 pages
Published: 2026-07-10