Ella Sanford thought joining the Imperial Academia’s scholarship trials would be her way out, a chance to disappear and survive. But just as she begins to find her footing among candidates, she is blindsided by the one person she never expected to see again: Thalric Dornevale. The same guy she once scarred in a fight and the one who killed her friend that forced her to flee the city. She came to Aegiron College to escape him. Now, trapped within the very institution meant to protect her.