Ashes of evermorne

Crow Ashthorne never wanted magic.

Growing up in a remote border village, he spent his life trying to stay unnoticed-until the night black fire exploded from his hands during a monster attack. Within days, royal knights drag him to Evermorne Academy, the most dangerous magic and sword school in the kingdoms.

An academy filled with nobles.

Warriors.

And Prince Lucien Valecrest.

Cold, powerful, and impossible to ignore, Lucien is everything Crow hates about royalty. As the strongest student in Evermorne, Lucien follows rules, controls lightning itself, and seems determined to make Crow's life miserable from the moment they meet.

The feeling is mutual.

Their rivalry quickly becomes legendary across campus:
constant duels,
arguments in class,
destroyed training arenas,
and dangerous missions that somehow always end with them protecting each other.

But Evermorne hides darker secrets beneath its ancient halls.

Shadow creatures are appearing more frequently.
Students are disappearing.
And hidden deep below the academy lies the truth behind a forgotten kingdom destroyed years ago.

A kingdom connected to Crow.

As enemies close in and Crow's unstable fire magic spirals further out of control, he discovers he may not be an ordinary student after all-but the missing prince of Solmire, a royal heir believed dead since childhood.

Now Crow is caught between a stolen past, a kingdom that wants him back, and a rivalry with Lucien that's becoming harder to define.

Because despite everything-
the arguments,
the tension,
the jealousy,
the secrets-

when the world starts burning,

Lucien is always the one standing beside him.