At Blackridge Collegiate Institute, names matter more than talent.Some students inherit centuries of power.Others spend their lives proving they deserve a place beside them.Evelyn Carter is the first scholarship student in years to earn her place at Britain’s most prestigious institution. Brilliant, relentless and impossible to ignore, she quickly becomes known as the girl who refuses to bow to old money and older traditions.Cassien Lucien Ashcombe has never had to earn respect.He is the only heir to one of Britain’s oldest ducal houses—a family whose wealth built empires, whose influence reaches Parliament, and whose darkest business remains hidden behind generations of impeccable reputation. Raised to become the perfect successor, Cassien has spent his entire life believing that legacy is everything.Then Evelyn proves him wrong.What begins as an academic rivalry soon becomes something far more dangerous. In a world where every choice is dictated by family, reputation and bloodlines, they are expected to hate each other.And they do.Until stolen glances become secret conversations.Until hatred turns into something neither of them can control.But love has a price.Especially when one family is willing to kill to protect its name.Because some names are inherited.And some become a burden too heavy to carry.The Weight of Our Names is a slow-burn British dark romance filled with aristocratic families, hidden criminal empires, enemies-to-lovers tension, academic rivalry, impossible choices and the devastating question:Can love ever outweigh the legacy you were born into?