Forced into a deadly military academy she was never meant to survive, a young woman must hide the forbidden magic awakening inside her while serving under the future king who broke her heart years ago.

In Anvarus, every citizen is assigned a future by the Infidium. Peyton Lancaster has spent her entire life preparing to follow in her father's footsteps in the Science Sector—until she's ripped from the future she planned and forced into the kingdom's brutal military academy instead.

Worse? Her commanding officer is Jude Augustine: the future king, her childhood best friend, and the boy who abandoned her when she needed him most.

Determined to prove she's more than a liability, Peyton throws herself into deadly training and impossible trials, refusing to bend to the academy's rigid expectations—or Jude's relentless need to protect her. But when the Twelfth Moon Trials awaken a forbidden power hidden within her, Peyton becomes exactly what the Infidium fears most.

Now, the prince sworn to uphold the kingdom's laws must choose between the crown he's destined to inherit and the girl he's always loved, while Peyton fights to keep a dangerous magic from consuming her before the kingdom discovers the truth.

Featuring childhood best friends-to-lovers, military academy training, a protective prince, forbidden magic, deadly trials, "who did this to you?" energy, forced proximity, touch-her-and-die devotion, and a slow-burn romance that asks one impossible question: what do you choose when duty demands one thing, but your heart demands another?