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by Katerina St Clair (Author)
Magic rarely asks what we prefer.
Harper Whitlock learned that truth long before she ever understood why. In a world where power is shaped by wands and rituals, hers never waited to be summoned. It lived beneath her skin, wild and restless, a force that refused to be softened or tamed.
When her long-buried birthright is exposed, Harper is forced into the very world her family abandoned. Vireldan Academy. A sanctuary for the gifted, the cursed, and the dangerously powerful. Behind its gilded halls and candlelit corridors, secrets fester like old wounds, alliances fracture without warning, and ancient magic stirs beneath marble floors slick with history.
Plagued by fragmented memories that slip through her grasp and bound to a legacy written in blood, Harper must survive a society built on manipulation, whispered threats, and carefully calculated betrayals. Here, power is a language everyone speaks fluently, and mercy is rarely offered without a price.
Ares Parker, her shadow. Silent, watchful, and inescapable.
Sebastian Harwood, her savior. Steady, dangerous, and impossible to ignore.
Between them, Harper collides with a love that could steady her unraveling world... or be the very thing that destroys her.
As enemies wear the faces of friends and the past claws its way into the present, Harper discovers the truth of her magic. It is darker, older, and far more powerful than she was ever meant to carry.
And once it wakes, nothing and no one will ever cage it again.
