The Veil of Echoes: A Fractured Inheritance

When Lia Chen-Rodriguez, a biracial anthropologist cursed with absorbing cultural traumas through touch, gets recruited by the clandestine Iris Council, she discovers her "curse" is actually the rarest form of magic - the power to transmute heritage into tangible energy. Now she must partner with Qasim al-Farouk, a brooding Syrian-British architect wielding geometric magic from a dying lineage, to prevent the collapse of civilization's hidden magical infrastructure.