The Crown of Shadows

They say the Royal Academy forges the throne's greatest heroes.
They just forget to mention that most never make it out alive.

Dragged from her freedom and forced to enroll at Elthernia Academy, Aelyn Valcaris is sure of one thing: she has no magic.
But her enemies do - and here, failure isn't an option. It's a death sentence.
Surrounded by deadly trials, cutthroat politics, and venomous rivalries, Aelyn refuses to break. She watches, she plans, she strikes where no one sees her coming. But when the sorting runes place her in a long-forgotten House - the House of Stars and Moon - the façade she's built starts to crumble.
What if the power she's always denied has been inside her all along?

But the Academy's dangers don't end in its shadowed halls. Whispers of betrayal spread through the court, rebels rise from the lost kingdom of Astralya, and at the center of it all stands Prince Kaelith - cold, magnetic... and her fiercest rival.
Protect the realm or betray it. Submit or break the chains. Fall in love... or die before she chooses.

In a world where magic devours those who wield it, Aelyn has a choice to make:
be someone else's weapon - or forge her own destiny.