Thrown into a brutal academy for demon hunters, Elira Vareth is unprepared, untrained, and unwilling. What was meant to be a path of knowledge and books becomes a gauntlet of blood, steel, and secrets.
Her only anchor is her older brother Cael, a respected upper-year student who will do anything to keep her safe. But when Elira is assigned to Kaelryn Drayce-Cael's cold, ruthless rival-safety is the last thing she feels.
Kaelryn is dangerous, enigmatic, and legendary for breaking those he mentors. Surviving him might be harder than surviving the creatures they're trained to kill.
Torn between loyalty and instinct, surrounded by deadly trials and even deadlier students, Elira must decide: will she break... or become something the darkness fears?
After twenty years of captive slumber in a forgotten academy, you awaken to a world that is no longer your own.
The Light Institute welcomes you not with answers, but with chains - and places you under the watch of its most feared creation.
Seth, their Executioner.
A shadow-born mystic whose power is unmatched, whose hands were shaped for death, not mercy.
Bound to guard you. Bound to destroy you.
As the secrets of the Institute slowly unravel, so too does the fragile line between duty and desire.
And in the darkness of his presence, a dangerous truth emerges:
sometimes the greatest threat to freedom... is the one you ache to surrender to, the one you crave to embrace.