A slow-burn romantasy featuring elemental magick, rival academies, forbidden power, and dangerous attraction.

She’s not supposed to be here…

Celeste Farris didn’t choose the blood in her veins—or the secrets stitched into it.

Born into a fallen water dynasty and haunted by her father’s death, she arrives at Whittaker School of Magick, an elite academy where elemental wielders are trained to become perfect weapons for the Service—the government faction that rules magick with ruthless precision.

Celeste wants only to survive. To stay unnoticed. And try to understand the dangerous power rising beneath her skin before someone else does.

But staying invisible at Whittaker becomes impossible the moment she crosses paths with the academy’s brightest star.

Noa Gallagher.

Fire-born, fierce and loyal, and powerful enough to scorch the edges of everything Celeste is hiding. But he’s also the boy who would burn the world to keep her safe—the one who makes her want to burn with him.

And when the rival Vikhrostrum Akademiya delegation arrives, a shadow from her past returns with them.

Gavrail Kamenov.

Dark hair. Silver eyes. A wielder with shadow magick in his blood and secrets that seem to mirror her own. As dangerous as he is beautiful, he pulls Celeste toward something far more unpredictable than the power she’s trying to control.

But getting caught between them is the least of her problems.

Because elemental magick is shifting.

Old bloodlines are waking.

And the truth hidden inside Celeste’s veins may be the key to an ancient power the Service has hunted for generations.

If they discover what she is, they won’t just try to control her—

they’ll want to own her.

Caught between flame and shadow, rival loyalties and dangerous desire, Celeste must decide who she truly is—and who she’s willing to become before the truth buried inside her unravels everything.

Because some magick is not meant to be bound.

Some legacies refuse to stay buried.

And love—love can be the anchor…

Or the storm.