Myroslyn
"Power is a vintage wine. Drink too much, and it will kill you. Drink too little, and you'll never truly live."
The Blurb
St. Jude's International Academy is where the children of Nigeria's 0.1% come to play. Tucked away in the misty hills of Enugu, its mahogany halls hold more than just future presidents and oil moguls-they hold the Ivory Covenant, a secret society known only as The Seven Crowns.
Amara Uzor is a "Scholarship Ghost." Invisible, brilliant, and carrying the weight of her Ajegunle roots, she has one goal: graduate and find her father, who vanished ten years ago.
But ghosts shouldn't wander into forbidden botanical gardens at midnight.
When Amara witnesses a blood-wine initiation, she catches the eye of Zane Balogun. He is the "Prince of Lagos"-lethally handsome, dangerously bored, and the heir to a political dynasty built on skeletons.
To save her scholarship-and her life-Amara is forced into a deadly pact: Fake-date the Prince. As Amara is pulled into a world of gold-trimmed blazers, illegal street races in Ikoyi, and high-society masquerades, she realizes the Seven aren't just rich kids. They are the keepers of an ancient, pre-colonial secret-one that reveals her father wasn't just a victim. He was a Crown.
In a school where whispers can kill and every kiss is a calculation, Amara must decide: Will she break the Covenant, or will the Ivory be stained by her own blood?