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They say Viel Academy is built between two realms-where the living walk beside the echoes of the dead. Hidden behind its towering gates and enchanted walls, it trains the next rulers of both light and shadow. But no one ever talks about the ones who don't survive long enough to graduate.
When Seren Althea, an ordinary girl from a forgotten town, receives an unexpected invitation to the Academy, she's convinced it's a mistake. She has no power. No noble blood. No reason to belong in a place where every breath is a competition for survival. Yet, Viel chose her-and Viel never makes mistakes.
From the moment she steps into the academy's halls, she becomes the target of whispers, envy, and danger. Students with ancient bloodlines and cursed gifts look down on her. But none are crueler-or more infuriatingly captivating-than Zevrian Draegor, the academy's most feared prodigy and the heir to the Shadow Court.
He's cold, arrogant, and merciless.
She's stubborn, reckless, and refuses to bow.
They clash like fire and ice, bound by a fate neither of them asked for. He wants her gone. She wants to prove she belongs. But the deeper Seren digs into the academy's secrets, the more she realizes that the veil separating the living and the dead is weakening-and she might be the reason why.
Enemies by choice.
Allies by force.
And maybe, something forbidden that neither dares to name.
Because in Viel Academy, love isn't a fairytale-it's a curse. And falling for the wrong person might just be the thing that destroys them both.