Shadowmoor taught her to survive in the dark, not to live in the light. Scarred, marked, and forged by cruelty, she’s learned that weakness is fatal. But when her father drags her from the shadows to Silvercrest Academy, a world of privilege and power, she’s forced to face something even more dangerous than monsters, expectation.
Silvercrest trains the magically gifted to serve the Monarchy, but she has no gift, no spark, no magic at all. Every lesson is a test, every rival a threat. Failure means exile. Survival means pretending to be something she’s not.
In a place built on secrets, she’ll need to decide who she can trust before the Academy decides for her. Because at Silvercrest, even the light has teeth.
