Gifted

Violet has spent her life believing she was cursed.

Orphaned after the alien "Purge" shattered Earth, raised by a grieving grandfather, and hiding abilities she barely understands, she has learned one rule: survive quietly. At twenty-three, she accepts an invitation to Campus, a secluded global sanctuary for the "gifted", humans whose DNA was altered when interstellar beings invaded and vanished.
Behind its walls are thousands like her: fire-wielders, illusionists, shape-shifters, the visibly inhuman and the deceptively ordinary. For the first time, Violet might belong somewhere. Then she discovers her past followed her there.

Damian is a vampire, faster, stronger, and devastatingly magnetic, and the love she lost three years ago in the chaos of underground resistance work. The man who promised he would find her. The man she never stopped loving.

The man who is now married to another guide.

Damian insists he searched for Violet until he believed she was dead. He swears he still loves her. He just "needs time." Time to untangle a marriage built from shared captivity and trauma. Time to decide which life he wants.

Violet has a different problem. Her gift is volatile, dangerous, and far more powerful than anyone realizes. As political tensions outside Campus escalate and whispers of renewed government experimentation resurface, she begins to suspect Campus may not be the haven it claims to be. And Xander, the charismatic founder who "found" her at just the right moment, may know more about her power and her connection to Damian than he admits.

Staying means enduring the daily sight of the man she loves with another woman while training to weaponize an ability she barely understands. Leaving means returning to a world that hunts people like her.

As buried truths about the Purge surface and loyalties fracture, Violet must decide who she is and whether the greatest threat to her future is the world outside the walls, or the secrets within them. And to protect the people she's starting to love and to avoid becoming a weapon in someone else's war, Violet will have to embrace the full, terrifying scope of what she can do.