Kaelthar

Althea has always known she was different. Healing is the gift of Vaeloria. But stone was never supposed to answer her. When Myralda, the woman who raised her, dies, she leaves Althea a crystal with golden veins, a letter, and a name from the old stories: Kaelthar. The kingdom that vanished. The kingdom no one is supposed to remember. Determined to uncover the truth about her parents, Althea travels to Avarys, the city where the borders of every kingdom meet. There, one careless act of magic puts the guards on her trail, and she learns a dangerous rule: whoever carries two gifts disappears. With Caelan, an exile from Aetheria hiding secrets of his own, and Tobyn, a boy who seems to know someone everywhere and Veyra from Necrath, who hunts the ones who steal shadows. Althea is pulled into a world of forbidden memories, stolen shadows, and a truth that was buried for a reason. Because Kaelthar never vanished. And it is calling her home.