OUT OF BOUNDS: RULE ZERO

Selene doesn't want an army. She doesn't want a legend. She wants to buy bread without her hands shaking. But her mother sealed something inside her soul seven layers deep - a power born from two bloodlines that were never supposed to share one body - and every time it cracks, someone ends up dead at her feet and one more person decides she's worth following. First it was Kaizer, a shadow elf she saved on the worst day of her life, who now guards her like a vow he never asked permission to make. Then came Sumire, a cartographer who reads dead ruins and living souls with the same hungry precision - and has quietly decided Selene is hers to study, up close, for as long as she's allowed. Selene just wants to disappear. The world keeps finding her instead. Out of Bounds: Rule Zero is a high-fantasy slow-burn about outrunning your own power, building a family you never asked for, and learning that being seen isn't always the same thing as being in danger.Selene doesn't want an army. She doesn't want a legend. She wants to buy bread without her hands shaking. But her mother sealed something inside her soul seven layers deep - a power born from two bloodlines that were never supposed to share one body - and every time it cracks, someone ends up dead at her feet and one more person decides she's worth following. First it was Kaizer, a shadow elf she saved on the worst day of her life, who now guards her like a vow he never asked permission to make. Then came Sumire, a cartographer who reads dead ruins and living souls with the same hungry precision - and has quietly decided Selene is hers to study, up close, for as long as she's allowed. Selene just wants to disappear. The world keeps finding her instead. Out of Bounds: Rule Zero is a high-fantasy slow-burn about outrunning your own power, building a family you never asked for, and learning that being seen isn't always the same thing as being in danger.Selene doesn't want an army. She doesn't want a legend. She wants to buy bread without her hands shaking. But her mother sealed something inside her soul seven layers deep - a power born from two bloodlines that were never supposed to share one body - and every time it cracks, someone ends up dead at her feet and one more person decides she's worth following. First it was Kaizer, a shadow elf she saved on the worst day of her life, who now guards her like a vow he never asked permission to make. Then came Sumire, a cartographer who reads dead ruins and living souls with the same hungry precision - and has quietly decided Selene is hers to study, up close, for as long as she's allowed. Selene just wants to disappear. The world keeps finding her instead. Out of Bounds: Rule Zero is a high-fantasy slow-burn about outrunning your own power, building a family you never asked for, and learning that being seen isn't always the same thing as being in danger.