A Desert of Bleeding Sand

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(54 54 54 1)>I am Zair reviled half-blooded and dangerous. Aziza magic coils in my veins like a curse and for that they fear me. But I will not stand by while traitors attack my academy and vanish with its students especially as my sister is targeted.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(54 54 54 1)>They sent me to the palace as a student envoy to the king's coronation but I know the truth. I'm a weapon a spy cloaked in silk and suspicion sent to unmask those behind the disappearances. The air is thick with secrets and the palace feels alive pulsing with night magic and silent menace.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(54 54 54 1)>Then I meet him. Dathan. A rival spy from another academy-sharp-eyed clever cunning and deadly. I don't trust him and I shouldn't want him. But the pull between us is maddening dangerous a flame I cannot smother.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(54 54 54 1)>As more students vanish and shadows stir in every corridor we have no choice but to join forces. Yet every moment spent together fractures my resolve.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(54 54 54 1)>In a palace where ambition poisons the air and betrayal hides behind every smile I must unravel the truth before time runs out-while guarding my heart against the one man who could ruin more than the mission... he could destroy me.</span></p>