Twelve Dark Hours

<p><b>Three trials. Two rivals. One choice.</b><br><br><i>The Cruel Prince </i>meets <i>Powerless </i>in this dark academia romantasy of star-crossed lovers, a companion to international bestseller <i>Seven Deadly Thorns</i><br><br>Competition for top student at Gossemort school of magic is cutthroat. Vesper Fontaine and Lonan Duval have always been rivals, but they share a dangerous secret. Tonight, that secret could get them killed.<br><br>The annual Solstice feast should be a time to celebrate. But destiny has other plans. A mysterious crown prince arrives and claims Vesper as his bloodmate, triggering a chain of events that turn the celebration into a nightmare. All the students will be locked in the school and challenged to survive until dawn. They will face three trials, each more deadly than the last.<br><br>Vesper and Lonan fight off threats at every turn, but as the clock ticks closer to dawn, hope wanes. To survive the night, Vesper must make an impossible choice: embrace a familiar danger or surrender to a new fate.<br><b>What if love is a fate worse than death? </b></p>