lynniehazel1
***two-three chapters updated every few days***
Twenty-year-old Elaris Ignistar has been raised for one purpose-
to take the Raevian throne and lead an empire of dragons and fae.
As the future Empress, she's inherited more than her family's shadows and command of armies. She's burdened with the legacy of a civil war, a father executed for allying with vampires, and a Council that will test her every breath. Her last chance to prove she deserves the crown is The Highborn Academy, where the heirs of the four elemental territories train to rule-or to destroy each other.
On her first night, everything shatters.
Elaris discovers her fated mate is Darian Volcaryn, the ruthless dragon-bonded heir of Fire...and the childhood best friend who's spent years avoiding her. He wants to protect her but keeps a punishing distance, fighting the bond that burns between them. Then her current boyfriend, golden and charming Ferrow Serene, is caught in someone else's arms, and the girl who was supposed to rule unbreakable steps into the Academy already heartbroken.
When the holy Ascendant Falls judge Elaris and place her at the head of Rank One, the most powerful students in the realm, she's thrust into the center of a deadly game of politics, prophecy, and war training. Commanders watch her every move. Dragons answer when she calls. Enemies whisper that a vampire uprising is stirring beyond Raevia's borders-and some of the high families would rather see Elaris fall than wear the crown.