Noah - a human commoner, scarred by loss. Syl - an elven princess, chained to a crown she never wanted. He seeks vengeance. She bears duty. Their bond should never exist... Yet it grows, fragile and defiant - against everything they were taught to believe. A lavender field. A spark. A memory that refused to die. Now fate reunites them at the Academy - where every secret cuts deeper than a blade. The boy she knew is gone; in his place stands a man devoured by the past. Syl carries the truth: She was the girl from his past. To confess could shatter him. To stay silent could let the boy she remembers... Be lost forever. Within its walls, mercy is a myth. Trials, loyalties, and whispers force them to choose Between Choices: vengeance or forgiveness, duty or freedom, love or emptiness. Amid ancient enemies and rot beneath crowns, love is the most dangerous choice of all. Will she confess before rage consumes the boy who once held her hand?

Volume 1: Pickpocketing Living in secret and stealing to eat is a hard life , but it's all Kuro has ever known. Fear and necessity honed him from a young age into the finest young thief in in the wizard kingdoms. Nobody can hide forever, though, and a run of poor luck lands Kuro in a place where his quick hands and quiet feet count for nothing: Avalon Academy, school of magic. Out of his depth and unable to escape, can Kuro find a place among the other misfits at the school, or will his past return to ruin the one chance he has to leave his life in the shadows? I'm also publishing this on Royal Road.