They executed Liora Vale’s mother for treason.

Now they expect Liora to kneel.

Branded the daughter of a traitor, seventeen-year-old Liora enters Broken Crowns Academy with one secret goal: uncover the truth about the woman the Crown murdered and destroy the people who buried her name.

But the academy is not a school.

It is a fortress built over a prison.

Students disappear. Ancient shadows move beneath the stone. And every clue leads back to the royal bloodlines that rule the kingdom.

Especially Ronan Thorne.

Cold, feared, and heir to the family that stood beside the Crown during her mother’s execution, Ronan is everything Liora has sworn to hate. But when a deadly trial binds them with forbidden silver-black magic, she begins to see the darkness he keeps hidden beneath his perfect control.

Ronan carries a curse.

Liora carries the power to break it.

And their bond may be the only thing strong enough to expose the academy’s secret—or the final key needed to unleash the ancient monster imprisoned below it.

To save her mother, Liora must decide whether to trust the wolf heir whose family destroyed hers.

But in a kingdom ruled by crowns, trust can be deadlier than betrayal.

A dark academy fantasy romance filled with enemies-to-lovers tension, forbidden magic, secret societies, deadly trials, a cursed wolf heir, a disgraced heroine, hidden power, and a slow-burn romance that could destroy the kingdom.