A Garden Meant To Burn

Some flowers bloom in sunlight. Others thrive in ash.

When a radiant fae princess collides-literally-with a shadowed prince from a rival court, no one expects anything beyond formal pleasantries. Certainly not friendship. Certainly not late-night letters, secret smiles, or the kind of bond that spans years and borders.

But Thea of the Solar Court is nothing if not unexpected. And Prince Kyren of the Eclipse Court? He was born into silence, suspicion, and a prophecy that promises he will bring ruin to the very girl daring to love him.

Their paths cross again during the Celestial Trials, a brutal rite designed to forge champions and fracture alliances. And yet, despite every reason to remain distant, they are drawn together by something neither of them dares to name. When illness strikes Kyren's mother, Thea makes a reckless decision: to follow him into the mountains where magic bleeds into myth, where a single flower might save a queen-or cost them everything.

But the trials were only the beginning.

Because months later, a kingdom burns.

Letters go unanswered. Help never comes. And in the silence left behind, a girl who once danced in sunlight begins to unravel.

Whispers speak of a masked stranger in the borderlands, spreading rumors of war