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Cimmeria Thrace had entered Vesperion Academy believing knowledge could protect her.
She had been wrong.
In Kaeltharion, the Prolonged ruled from ancient towers while the Brief struggled to survive beneath them. Cimmeria had been chosen to enter their world, believing the academy could become her escape.
Instead, she found black marble halls, brutal trials, dangerous creatures, ancient traditions, and secrets buried beneath centuries of privilege.
Then there was Evander Valtorin.
He had been born into power and raised to believe the world belonged to people like him. Beautiful, influential, and gifted with the ability to control the minds of others, he had never been denied anything.
Until Cimmeria.
She did not worship him.
She did not fear him enough.
And she refused to become another person beneath his control.
Her defiance fascinated him.
His attention frightened her.
What began as unwanted fascination slowly became something darker, drawing them into a dangerous world where obsession could disguise itself as devotion and power could become its own form of imprisonment.
Beneath Vesperion's gothic towers, something was changing. The city seemed to feel it. The academy seemed to know it. Even the ancient machines beneath its foundations appeared to be waiting.
Cimmeria had entered Vesperion, hoping to build a future.
She would discover that survival required more than intelligence.
It required strength.
It required courage.
And sometimes, it required becoming something the people who underestimated you could never have imagined.
A dark, futuristic, gothic romance filled with obsession, supernatural abilities, dangerous power dynamics, forbidden attraction, academy rivalries, ancient aristocracy, psychological tension, and secrets beneath the rain.
Vesperion was never simply a school.
It was a world waiting to consume her.
Mature themes. Explicit content. Reader discretion advised.
Β© RelleLebby / R. L. / Relle H.