She memorized the mark that killed her father. She never expected to find it on the boy the ancient magic chose for her. Three years ago, seventeen-year-old Eveline Ashford lost her father to a shadowy assassin known only as the Hunter — a killer bound to a centuries-old blood oath and controlled by someone powerful enough to bury the truth. Before he died, Commander Aldric Ashford pressed a single drawing into his daughter's hands: a compass-rose mark, four points, always the left collarbone. If you ever see this, run. Eve didn't run. She went to Ironveil Military Academy, sharpened herself into a weapon, and spent three years building a case that would expose the conspiracy that her father When the transfer cadet steps into the assembly yard with his collar open one button too many, Eve sees it immediately — the compass-rose scar on his collarbone, identical to her father's drawing. The Hunter's Mark. On a boy her own age. And before she can decide what to do about it, the ancient bond magic of Eldarwen flares between them, branding them as Soulmates in front of the entire Academy. Now Eve is Soulbonded to the son of the man who killed her father, and the conspiracy she's been hunting for three years is hunting her back. Eve must make an impossible choice: finish the mission she was born for, or save the boy she never meant to trust. The Hunter's Mark is a gripping YA fantasy about justice, found family, and the courage it takes to choose love when love looks like the enemy.