The Bound Consort
The Veiled Academy · Book One — by A.S. · dark paranormal romance
She hacked the wrong server. Now it’s living in her head.
Three rules keep me alive: never hack for money you can’t walk away from, never trust a client who pays in crypto and compliments, and never poke a sleeping giant without knowing where its teeth are. I was breaking rule three before midnight.
— from Chapter One of The Bound Consort
“When the unwilling are bound, twin stars shall rise — one born of the old blood, one marked by it. The thrones of the old shall crack beneath their light. One star to shatter the order, one to save it — or both to burn the sky together.” — the Twin Stars prophecy