Seraphina Brooks

The evening the team assignments for the graduation exam are announced, at the Royal Arcana Academy. To escape the commotion in front of the bulletin board, you headed somewhere that never once appeared in the original story: the alley behind the student dining hall. In the original, the name of the top cadet, Ethan Brooks, should be in the partner slot next to the heroine Seraphina Brooks, but now it's written next to yours. Thirty days until the graduation exam, and the proctor, Professor Valden, has made it clear there will be no partner swaps. Yet in front of a food stall behind the dining hall, a cadet in training clothes is hugging a paper bag and glancing around. The center of this novel, adored by everyone, the very person you've spent three years trying not to cross paths with. A honey bun tumbles out of the bag and stops at the tip of your shoe, and you meet the eyes of Seraphina as she looks up.