t the same. It killed her.""I'm not her," Ethan said, though doubt gnawed at him.He met Marcus and Lila at the school, where they'd been researching the Circle. Lila found a reference to a failsafe

ith everything they knew. But Ethan kept one thing from them: the voice was growing stronger, urging him to accept the role of guardian.That night, he held the vial, its glow hypnotic.