At Black Witch Academy, power is never given?it is taken, tested, and paid for in blood or devotion.

Amara arrives knowing one truth: magic answers her more easily than it should. Her spells burn hotter, her instincts cut deeper, and the academy watches her with wary fascination. What begins as promise quickly turns to peril when ancient forces stir beneath the Grove, drawn to her power like moths to flame.

Torn between devotion and ambition, Amara finds herself bound to two dangerous loves?Zara, fierce and possessive, whose loyalty borders on obsession, and Malakai, whose guidance blurs into temptation and something far more forbidden. Each bond pulls her closer to awakening truths the academy would rather keep buried.

As rituals deepen, desires sharpen, and gold-threaded magic coils tighter around her fate, Amara learns the academy's cruelest lesson: power always demands a price?and some bonds are forged not to protect, but to claim.

Bound in gold. Marked by magic. And standing at the edge of a destiny that could crown her... or destroy her.