She showed up at the Veldt manor with nothing but her father’s debt and a cruel contract: marry one of the family’s two heirs by her 18th birthday, or be stripped of her magic forever.
Everyone at elite Oakhurst Academy writes her off as a magicless commoner — easy prey for the headmaster’s ruthless daughter, who will stop at nothing to claim the Veldt name for herself.
They all got it dead wrong.
Her magic isn’t weak. It’s locked away. Sealed at birth by her father, because the raw power inside her would have killed her as a child.
When cold, brilliant heir Kane stumbles on her secret, he doesn’t turn her in. He trains her — every night, in secret. Sharp bickering turns to sharper tension, and a bond neither of them dared to want.
But the other brother? Gentle, golden-hearted Lorne? He’s been holding poison this whole time. A “power-boosting potion” meant to shatter her magic, ruin her, and clear his path to the entire inheritance.
It all blows up at the annual magic tournament. A stolen vial, a public accusation, a lethal attack.
And in the split second before it’s too late — the seal shatters.
The girl they mocked as worthless? She’s the most powerful mage this realm has seen in a century.
She didn’t come here for a husband. She came to rewrite every rule.
