Amber Hamilton

Survival at Gossemort Academy comes with a steep price. You have always known that securing the top spot at this cutthroat school of magic means stepping over others, but for Vesper Fontaine and Lonan Duval, the stakes have just become lethal. Tonight is The Ridding. You will be locked inside the academy walls, forced to face three grueling trials where only the most skilled and loyal will see the sunrise. To make matters worse, a dangerous complication has just arrived. A mysterious prince steps from the shadows, claiming Vesper as his bloodmate. When your supposed fated destiny looks more like a death sentence, all the rules change. The halls are growing darker, the trials are turning deadly, and time is rapidly ticking away. If you want to survive until dawn, you will have to make an impossible choice. The only person Vesper can rely on to navigate this deadly gauntlet is Lonan, her most bitter rival. Plunge into this dark academia romantasy filled with high stakes, hidden secrets, and a deadly competition where trusting your worst enemy is the only way out.

In the cursed Kingdom of Aragoa, the punishment for magic is death. Viola Sinclair has managed to hide the deadly shadow magic in her blood for seventeen years, but when her secret is finally discovered, the queen dispatches her personal assassin. The Huntsman is given a cursed tattoo of a seven-thorned rose—one thorn for each day he has to hunt Viola down and kill her. If he fails, he will be the one to die. But the Huntsman isn't just an assassin. He is Roze Roquelart, an entitled prince, an arrogant fellow student, and the one person Viola hates more than anyone else. Roze should revel in the chance to end her life, but he desperately needs something from Viola and her magic. Willing to spare her life—and fake their engagement—to get it, the two are forced to work together. With only seven days to save themselves, Viola and Roze must contend with deadly threats, dangerous secrets, and an impossible attraction that could destroy them both.