A Portrait of Blood and Shadows

<p class=ql-align-center>Welcome to Drakestone Academy where ancient magic breathes through the walls shadows whisper secrets and bloodlines carry more than legacy... they carry curses.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>At twenty-five Elvana Vale attends Drakestone as a first-year student. Haunted by a fragmented family history and drawn to the academy her mother once called home she arrives with more questions than answers and a growing darkness that stirs beneath her skin.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>Drakestone is no ordinary school of magic. Its stone halls hold relics of ruin arcane trials and a history soaked in blood and betrayal. As Elvana uncovers forbidden truths buried deep within her ancestral name she finds herself entangled with a mysterious classmate whose past is as haunted as her own and a cursed relic that may be the key to unraveling-or unmaking-the kingdom of Mystral.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center>But some relics were never meant to be found. </p><p class=ql-align-center>And some truths were buried for a reason.</p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong>Atmospheric romantic and edged in danger<em> A Portrait of Blood and Shadows</em> is the first installment in the dark academia fantasy series <em>Echoes of the Veil</em>-a story of secret legacies forbidden love and the price of power when magic remembers what you tried to forget.</strong></p>