"You should be afraid of me, mongrel. I keep telling you that."

Malcroix Bones Academy, hallowed university for elite Magicals, just enrolled its first hybrid student in its thousand-year history, Leda Shadow. The Bones family founders also send their male heir, Caelum: entitled, spoiled, irritatingly competent, deadly in the magical sparring ring, and born to preside as virtual king over the university his family founded. He's also best friend to the first Magical Leda meets when she first arrives in Magical London.

Of course, Caelum himself despises her on sight.

But when someone tries to kill her, he learns something strange about her magic, and together they make a pact. He'll help her stay alive, and she'll help him with his magical "problem," and absolutely no one will know of their arrangement. But as the year unfolds, their already-volatile relationship gets increasingly complicated.

And Caelum's got a rep as the biggest prick in school for a reason.

For fans of:

• dark academy (with adult characters)

• enemies to lovers

• "Who did this to you?"

• Touch her and die

• forbidden love

• found family

• slow burn, epic romance (with lots of action)

• spice (but you may have to be patient)

• dark and light magic

• forced proximity

• angsty, trapped, morally grey hero

• secret identities

• unique world and magical system

• plot twists, complicated political world, and big character reveals

• lots of arguing :)

• dark cults and hidden enemies

Malcroix Bones Academy is book one in the dark academia romance series, Bones and Shadow. Meet Leda Shadow, first hybrid to live in Magique in over a thousand years, and Caelum Bones, the prince prick of the magical university where she finds herself. This dark academia, enemies to lovers, romantasy series, Bones and Shadow, features all adult characters in a brand new world, filled with deadly creatures, dark sorcerers, invisible cities, ancient myths, animal spirits, dark magic, and cults obsessed with wiping out the human race.

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