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"There are things even the invulnerable can’t touch."

Not even the brightest arrogance…

Emma Reeds is eighteen—a prodigy whose intellect surpasses every adult at Pandora Headquarters. With brilliance comes control, an obsession that governs her life. She doesn’t leave her office without gloves, sterilizes every surface she touches, and sees most of humanity as both filthy and foolish.

Lugel Draiven, on the other hand, is locked in a detention center, accused of violently attacking his teacher and classmates. His ability? Complete regeneration, no matter the damage. His fear? Needles—a mystery even to him.

Pandora needs Lugel for a dangerous mission: entering the Hekaton Reactor, the site of a nuclear accident and the resting place of a sealed box that must never be opened.

Emma must persuade him. Lugel only wants to be left alone.

The deal is simple: freedom for compliance.

But the connection that emerges between them is anything but simple.

She is precision, pride, and logic.He is sarcasm, scars, and mistrust.

And beneath the radioactive ruins… something waits.