ShannanRichards
When a forbidden ritual shatters the life she thought she knew, seventeen‑year‑old Zorya Hale wakes with a glowing mark on her skin and a prophecy stitched into her fate. Before she can even breathe, she's taken to an academy that exists outside the mortal world - a place where magic is currency, secrets are weapons, and survival is earned, not given.
Everyone at the academy fears the mark she carries.
Everyone except him.
The boy with the silver eyes.
Cold. Brilliant. Dangerous.
A prince born from shadows... and the only one who understands what she's becoming.
Bound together by a curse older than the kingdom itself, Zorya and the prince are pulled into a prophecy that promises salvation or destruction - depending on which of them breaks first. As the mark spreads through her body and enemies close in from every direction, Zorya discovers that the academy isn't a school at all. It's a battlefield disguised as a sanctuary.
Every lesson is a test.
Every ally hides a motive.
Every kiss is a risk.
And every choice pushes her closer to a destiny she never asked for.
When betrayal tears the academy apart and the prince is taken, Zorya must descend into the Underrealm - a place where the dead whisper, the living bleed, and the truth is far more dangerous than the curse itself.
But breaking the curse won't save her.
It will change her.
And when she finally rises, the world will kneel...
or burn.