The government fears children like Kendle's students. Kendle refuses to let them disappear.

The Warehouse is the last school willing to shelter gifted teenagers, children whose psychic Gifts can crack walls and shatter glass when emotions run high. Every day Kendle fights to teach them control before the government decides they're too dangerous to save.

Then Stephen arrives.

He comes from the privileged world of the Breds, genetically engineered to be everything Kendle distrusts. She sees another outsider who doesn't belong. Stephen only wants to prove she has him all wrong.

He never expects the Warehouse, or the woman determined to protect it, to become his home.

But as fear of Wild-born grows and the Warehouse faces closure, Kendle and Stephen discover they're fighting for the same thing: the children everyone else has given up on.

Now they must risk everything to save the only place either of them has ever truly belonged.

Rivals-to-lovers. Found family. Gifted teens. Slow-burn dystopian romantasy.

For readers who love the found family of The Umbrella Academy, the gifted heroes of X-Men, and slow-burn dystopian romance.

Tropes: Rivals to Lovers · Slow-Burn Romance · Found Family · Gifted Teenagers · Protective Teacher Heroine · Psychic Gifts · Academy Setting · Open-Door Romance · Impossible Choices · Opposites Attract · Saving the School · Protecting Children · Chosen Family · Special Abilities

Heat: Open Door

Series: Wild & Bred Chronicles, Book 1

POV: First Person (Kendle)

Setting: Parallel Universe • Chicago

Features: Telepathy • Telekinesis • Genetic Engineering • Dystopian School • Found Family • Protecting Gifted Children