At the prestigious Aevoria Academy, knowledge is power, and magic is forbidden. Elara Thorne only wants to survive her final year unnoticed, control the dangerous magic inside her, and graduate before anyone discovers what she truly is. Especially Professor Kael Durnan, the academy’s cold, feared, and impossibly brilliant professor. Kael has rules. Strict ones. He doesn’t mix emotions with duty, and he certainly doesn’t fall for students. But Elara awakens something ancient inside him, something tied to a curse that has haunted his bloodline for centuries. When forbidden magic resurfaces within the academy walls, dark secrets begin to unravel. Forced to work together, teacher and student are pulled into a dangerous attraction neither of them can resist. But in a world where magic demands sacrifice, loving each other may destroy them both.