Ebonmere

Some destinies are written in the stars.

Others are written in blood.

When eighteen-year-old **Rowena Ashford** receives an invitation to the hidden Ebonmere University, she leaves behind the only life she's ever known to enter a world where magic is woven into every stone, every secret, and every soul. It is a place where power is earned, ancient bloodlines rule from the shadows, and one mistake can cost far more than a grade.

Determined to prove she belongs, Rowena quickly discovers that surviving Ebonmere isn't just about mastering magic-it's about surviving the people who wield it.

None more dangerous than **Artemas Sterling**.

Cold, brilliant, and feared by students and professors alike, Artemas seems to despise her from the moment they meet. Every encounter ends in another rivalry, another challenge, another reason to stay as far away from him as possible.

But when an ancient force begins to stir beneath the university and long-buried secrets come to light, Rowena and Artemas find themselves bound by a mystery neither of them can escape. A bond older than the university itself has awakened, and someone will do anything to keep its truth hidden.

Because some connections are stronger than love.

Stronger than hatred.

And the most dangerous magic of all is the kind that refuses to let two souls walk separate paths.

Welcome to Ebonmere.

Where every secret has a price.