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Between Lucien's fire and Professor Thorne's ice, Seraphina faces an impossible choice: lose herself in collective passion or risk everything for forbidden knowledge and her professor's dangerous individual attention

# Chapter 11: The Hunter's Rules

When the mask falls away to reveal Mr. Halbrook—their trusted environmental science teacher—Lana realizes the betrayal runs deeper than she ever imagined. For three years, he's been evaluating them as potential weapons for a shadowy organization called the Collection. Now he's offering them a final test: survive eighteen hours in a forest filled with brainwashed former students, or join the four hundred "archived" victims who came before them. The timer is already counting down.