The black throne heir
At Obsidian Crown Academy, power is not inherited through blood alone it is measured in wealth, magic, and control. The richest heirs rule lecture halls like kingdoms, and the poorest students learn quickly how to stay invisible.
Nyra Vale has mastered invisibility.
Admitted on scholarship, she keeps her head down and her ambitions quiet in a world that was never built for someone like her. She believes survival depends on being unnoticed until the day Kael Morvane looks at her.
Kael is the academy’s untouchable prince. At barely twenty, he is the youngest magical billionaire in history, the sole living anchor of the Aurum Vaults ancient, sentient banks whose power sustains nations and determines the rise and fall of economies. Kings negotiate with him. Professors defer to him. Students fear him.
And Kael is forbidden from forming emotional attachments.
His wealth is bound to his soul. Desire destabilizes magic. Love has collapsed empires before.
Yet Nyra disrupts the system simply by existing.
Forced into proximity through shared classes and restricted vault studies, Nyra begins to notice subtle changes around Kael contracts that glow, vaults that react, markets that tremble when he is near her. Kael, trained his entire life to control himself, begins breaking rules he never thought to question: watching her too closely, protecting her too quietly, standing too near.
As the academy’s surveillance tightens and political forces move to exploit Kael’s instability, Nyra is pulled deeper into a world where money is alive, power listens, and her presence threatens everything Kael has been raised to protect. The closer they grow, the more the system pushes back, warning Kael that wanting her could cost millions of lives.
Letting her go may destroy them both.
In a world where love is a liability and power demands sacrifice, The Black Throne Heir is a dark, slow-burn fantasy about control, obsession, and the one variable no empire can ever calculate.