ACCESS GRANTED. SUBJECT: Flora-Fauna Hybridization & Casualty Reports. The world has been swallowed by the Jungle. Humanity survives behind the walls of the Exclusion Zones. And in the center of it all sits the Conservatory-the school where we turn our children into weapons. THE EXCLUSION ZONE ARCHIVES is a collection of standalone horror stories, field reports, and recovered logs from the universe of The Conservatory of Thorns (Novel Coming Dec 2025). WARNING: These files contain graphic descriptions of botanical body horror and death. The Conservatory is not a safe place. CURRENTLY DECRYPTING: 📂 FILE 001: THE NIGHT SHIFT A maintenance crew goes dark in Sector 4. The logs recovered suggest that the ventilation system wasn't the only thing breathing in the walls. 📂 FILE 002: DETENTION Security logs and disciplinary records regarding Student Jace Kovan. In the Conservatory, academic dishonesty isn't punished with expulsion. It's punished with recycling.

"The weak don't survive here." At Arclight Academy, your worth is measured by the creature you bond with. For Serenya Vale, a scholarship student born with a chronic, progressive illness, surviving the brutal training seems impossible. She expects to fail. She expects to die. What she doesn't expect is Kairen Draxen. Lethal, silent, and wrapped in living darkness, Kairen is the only rider in centuries to bond with a shadow dragon. To survive his bond, he had to stop feeling entirely, turning himself into a cold, unyielding void. No one can break his control. Until Serenya walks through the iron gates. Suddenly, Kairen's shadows are acting on their own-escaping his command to pool at Serenya's feet and ease her pain. As the lethal academy trials begin, the two are forced into an impossible proximity. Bound by a cosmic soul connection that demands his darkness surrender to her light, Kairen is terrified of losing control, and Serenya is just trying to stay alive. Featuring: > 🖤 Hurt/Comfort & Underdog Heroine 🖤 Grumpy x Sunshine (Dark Romantasy edition) 🖤 "Touch her and you die" energy 🖤 Forced Proximity & Fated Soulbonds