Twelve Dark Hours

The Cruel Prince meets Powerless in this dark academia romantasy retelling of Cinderella, a companion to international bestseller Seven Deadly Thorns Vesper is about to graduate Clerguemort, a magic school for meigas - people with shadow magic. The last requirement for graduation? A high-stakes competition where meigas must prove their trustworthiness and skill with magic to assimilate into ordinary society. If Vesper fails, she will be exiled forever. Locked in the school with her classmates until dawn, a series of terrifying challenges have been put in place to test their mettle. But Vesper knows the competition has gone horribly wrong when students start dying. A vicious vampire is searching for Vesper, killing anyone that gets in his way. To her surprise, Vesper''s step-siblings come to her aid. Are they as cruel as she had thought? Or is the real threat still unseen? Is Vesper hunter or hunted? The clock is ticking dangerously close to midnight as Vesper fights to find out. This story takes place in the same world as Seven Deadly Thorns but with a completely new cast of characters.

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Amber Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Deadly Thorns, is a former English teacher and current collector of books and bones. She lives with her children in Texas, where you can find her writing from her local pub, making art in her dining room, or indulging the many needs of her French bulldog, Waffles.

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Three trials. Two rivals. One choice.

Immortal Dark meets Powerless in this dark academia romantasy of star-crossed lovers, from the world of international bestseller Seven Deadly Thorns

Competition for top student at Gossemort school of magic is cutthroat. Vesper Fontaine and Lonan Duval have always been rivals, but they share a dangerous secret. Tonight, that secret could get them killed.

The annual Solstice feast should be a time to celebrate. But destiny has other plans. A mysterious crown prince arrives and claims Vesper as his bloodmate, triggering a chain of events that turn the celebration into a nightmare. All the students will be locked in the school and challenged to survive until dawn. They will face three trials, each more deadly than the last.

Vesper and Lonan fight off threats at every turn, but as the clock ticks closer to dawn, hope wanes. To survive the night, Vesper must make an impossible choice: embrace a familiar danger or surrender to a new fate.
What if love is a fate worse than death?