Skin Deep (Ink & Resonance #1)

For readers who loved Silver Elite, Daggermouth, and Crescent City.

Everything vibrates at its allotted frequency.
Stone. Water. Fire.
Fear. Rage. Love.
In the Territories, that energy is regulated. The Concord decides what citizens are allowed to access—fire for cooking, water to grow crops. Every tattoo is measured, capped, contained. Power is permitted only in doses that keep people useful but never dangerous.
Zyva is a Resonant Engineer. She knows the system from the inside—how frequencies bind to skin, how they can be amplified, suppressed… and where they break. She also knows the Concord is lying about how much power a human body can hold.
After they took her family, she started breaking the rules. Quietly. Deliberately. Building something powerful enough to take the system down with it.
Thane Aric is a former Guard of the Concord. Controlled. Observant. Built like a weapon—and disciplined enough to be one. He challenges her. Watches out for her. Gets too close.
Around him, the constant hum in her mind quiets, and the silence he offers begins to feel like something more. Around her, his control begins to fracture.
As the Concord tightens its grip and public burnings remind the people what happens to those who push too far, Zyva prepares to break the system from the inside out.
But revolutions are volatile. So is desire.
And when the moment comes to choose between freedom and survival… someone will have to burn.