Shadow Academy

Sera Blackwell arrives at the Obsidian Academy with a stolen identity, a list of seven names, and one purpose - find the truth behind her sister's death inside the most dangerous magical institution on the continent. She expects obstacles. She expects danger. She does not expect Kael Voss, the ruthless dark arts instructor with silver eyes and shadow magic that runs warm against her skin, who pins her to a stone wall on her first week and accuses her of being exactly what she is. When their clashing blood and shadow disciplines spontaneously forge an irreversible magical bond - a fusion so rare it has been documented only three times in history - Sera finds herself permanently tethered to the one man who could destroy her mission and the one man who has been quietly, methodically building the same case she came to finish. They are enemy and infiltrator, instructor and equal, two people who have been carrying terrible things alone for too long and are now, dangerously, carrying them together. The Academy hides a conspiracy older than either of them. The Headmaster knows more than he shows. And the bond between Sera and Kael is either the thing that saves them both or the thing that Crane will use to destroy them - because combined, their magic is not just compatible. It is unprecedented. It is unstoppable. It is exactly what the wrong people have been waiting for.