He smells his fated mate across the hall. She smells nothing—it was cut out of her at six.
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In Corun, every soul is born scentless to all but the one fate chose, and the Bond Registry quietly controls who may find whom. Neve Ardleigh, twenty-eight, has never smelled anyone; she works as a null witness, the neutral hand who seals other people's bonds. Then Roan Marrow, the coldest apex in three generations, freezes at her counter—he smells her, the girl he grieved as dead since he was twelve—and she smells nothing back.
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