Dark Inheritance

<p><strong>Mage's Crest: Dark Inheritance</strong></p><p><strong>Darkness was his inheritance. Defiance became his destiny.</strong></p><p>In the shadowed halls of Vauclère Château silence is power-and blood is the price of loyalty.<br>For centuries the Vauclère name has been bound to the Bloodless Choir a secret order sworn to erase the magicless and preserve their cruel legacy.</p><p>But Lucien Vauclère was never meant to be his father's heir.<br>When the Choir's violence steals the only friend he ever loved he flees the Château's gilded cage to forge his own path-one shaped not by blood but by choice.</p><p>Within the Mages Guild where mages and mundanes stand as equals Lucien learns to wield his dark and plant magic not as a weapon but as a vow to protect. Yet the shadows of his past stir once more and the Choir will stop at nothing to reclaim what they lost.</p><p>To break free of his family's curse Lucien must face the silence that forged him-and decide whether he will surrender to the darkness within or carve his own light through it.</p><p><em>A gothic fantasy of legacy rebellion and the light that dares to bloom within shadow.</em><br><br><em><strong>590 Pages</strong></em></p>