Covenwood Series — Book One
The Secret in the Shadows
She was told her whole life that something was wrong with her. They were right — just not in the way they meant. Ariadne Hawthorne has spent seventeen years medicating the noise, hiding the dreams, and pretending she doesn't see things move that shouldn't. When her father sends her to CovenWood Academy — a school she's never heard of, in a forest that doesn't appear on any map — she discovers the truth her mother died keeping: the noise isn't an illness. It is power. And someone has been waiting a very long time for it to wake up. CovenWood is home to three supernatural races, ancient rivalries, and secrets buried deep enough to have their own mythology. Ari arrives as an outsider and leaves her first semester as something else entirely — something the faculty won't name out loud and the students whisper about in corridors. There is a boy who looks at her like she's dangerous and can't seem to stay away. There is another who says all the right things and whose touch leaves her feeling like she's seen. There is a prophecy with her name in it. And somewhere beneath the academy's foundations, something ancient is pressing against bonds that are starting to fray. She has a choice to make. She doesn't know it yet. The Secret in the Shadows is Book One of the CovenWood Series — a dark adult romantasy for readers who like their magic dangerous, their romance slow-burning, and heroines who are done being told who they are.
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