Blade and Bone

North Star Academy Series - Book One

Briar Quinn survived the Fringe by learning three things early:

trust gets you killed, power belongs to the cruel, and anyone promising safety usually comes with a blade hidden behind their back.

So when she's dragged into the elite halls of North Star Academy-a brutal training ground for the realm's deadliest fae soldiers-Briar expects bloodline politics, corruption, and violence dressed up as discipline.

What she doesn't expect is Director Rowan Vale.

Beautiful in the way storms are beautiful. Cold enough to make entire rooms fall silent when he walks into them. Rowan rules North Star with iron control, a reputation soaked in blood, and the kind of authority no one is stupid enough to challenge.

Except Briar.

And Rowan notices her immediately.

The problem is, North Star Academy isn't just training soldiers anymore.

Something ancient is waking beyond the border districts. Patrols are vanishing. Cities are going dark. Monsters long buried beneath the realm are beginning to crawl back into the light-and the High Council is willing to sacrifice anyone necessary to stop them.

Including Briar.

Now Rowan and Briar find themselves trapped between war, forbidden obsession, and secrets capable of burning the entire realm to the ground.

Because the most dangerous thing at North Star Academy isn't the creatures beyond the walls.

It's the moment Rowan Vale realizes Briar Quinn is the one thing he would destroy kingdoms to keep alive.