Spectral Contract
Sixteen-year-old Kael Arclight lives in a neon-lit city where ghosts hide behind every reflection—but he has spent most of his life trying to ignore the supernatural. That changes the night he accidentally forms a forbidden Spectral Contract with a mysterious ghost girl named Lyra. The contract brands him with a glowing mark that grants him powers he doesn’t understand—and begins draining his life with every use.
Lyra remembers nothing about her death, yet dangerous fragments surface whenever Kael touches the mark. Each memory hints at a catastrophic event the government erased from history… and a horrifying truth buried in Kael’s own past. Even worse, the contract makes him a criminal in the eyes of The Veil Order, an elite force that hunts illegal ghost-bonded humans on sight.
Now Kael and Lyra are forced into a deadly chase across ghost zones, abandoned districts, and the hidden underbelly of the city. As Kael’s powers grow unstable and Lyra’s true identity begins to emerge, the line between human and ghost starts to blur. Enemies close in from every side—rogue spirits hungry for the contract, Veil exorcists who want Kael dead, and a mysterious officer, Ardyn Vale, who seems to know more about Lyra than she does herself.
But the greatest threat isn’t chasing them.
It’s waking up inside Kael.
When a monster known as a “Reclaimer” appears—something that only hunts survivors of massive ghost disasters—Kael realizes the truth: he wasn’t an ordinary boy who stumbled into fate. He’s the lone survivor of a forgotten tragedy… and the key to a disaster that might happen again.
To save Lyra, uncover the past, and stay alive, Kael must choose:
break the forbidden contract and lose her forever—
or complete it and risk becoming something no longer human.