Origins The Spark Beneath. The Stellar Heart Series, #1

Aurelia Virex built the future. As a leading astrophysicist on the Helios Project, she creates a revolutionary energy system meant to end the global crisis. But when her work is pushed beyond safe limits under hidden oversight, the experiment collapses into something far worse than failure. It becomes ignition. Aurelia survives the impossible her body fused with a living solar force that grows stronger by the hour.
Branded a disaster and hunted by the very people who funded her, she's forced into hiding as her control slips and the world begins to fear what she's becoming. But the catastrophe wasn't an accident. Someone wanted this outcome. And as Aurelia struggles to survive her own power, an unseen architect watches closely. waiting to see what she becomes. SO assisted for character history and story plotting