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Everstone Academy was never meant to find her.
Scarlett grew up believing she was powerless-ordinary, safe, invisible. But when a violent surge of unexplained power exposes her, she's taken from everything she knows and erased from the world's records.
Hidden beyond massive gates lies Veloryn, a city built for the powerful-and at its heart, Everstone Academy, a school that doesn't just teach magic... it weaponizes it.
As Scarlett is trained under strict rules, silent surveillance, and a chilling headmistress who knows more than she lets on, she begins to realize the truth is far worse than she imagined. Her power-control over time itself-is extinct. Feared. And desperately wanted.
Meanwhile, back in the powerless world, Jenna refuses to let Scarlett vanish without a trace. With the help of Elliot-a boy willing to sacrifice everything-they uncover a secret classification that proves Scarlett was never a student. She was an asset.
Caught between loyalty and survival, truth and control, Scarlett must decide who she is before the academy decides for her.
Because at Everstone Academy, power is never a gift.
It's a sentence.