Saint Augustine Academy judges every vampire by the Silver Chalice. Royals are worshipped, while Commons are forced to live in the shadows. Evelyn Ashcroft, the headmaster’s eldest daughter, believes she belongs among the elite—until a public ceremony exposes her as a Common. Betrayed by her fiancé, her sister, and her father, she dies beneath the sealed chapel. A mysterious blood ritual sends her back one year, giving her a chance to change her fate. Evelyn breaks her engagement and becomes bound to Lucian Vale, a feared student marked by black-red thorns. As their forbidden love deepens, missing women, falsified bloodlines, and secrets hidden beneath the academy begin to surface. Evelyn must choose who she wants to become in a world ruled by blood.
