Book I · Coming late October / early November 2026
Das Blutzeichen
She feels what others feel. She doesn't know where she comes from. And someone has been looking for her for seventeen years.
Nele was a foundling. From the time before Sabine and Thomas took her in, she has nothing but a scrap of faded cloth and a strange mark on her left forearm. On a school trip she loses control of a gift she has hidden all her life — and wakes beneath Paris, in a hidden city no one above suspects exists.
There lives the Ankerbund, which has guarded an ancient bond since time immemorial. Nele is to learn to master her gift. But when a friend is abducted, only she can read his trail. And every trail also leads back to her — to a truth someone has buried very carefully.
Who can she still trust?
Book 1 of the Blood Seal trilogy. Urban fantasy for young adults about origins, belonging, and an inheritance you don't get to choose.