Arcane: the YA version (The Harmonia Chronicles: the YA version)

When Malia loses her parents in one devastating night, she expects grief. She doesn't expect to be shipped off to a hidden academy where teenagers sharpen blades and their abilities with equal intensity—all in preparation for a war that has been raging in the shadows for centuries.

Malia wants no part of it. She didn't ask for destiny, and she certainly didn't ask for the nightmares that follow her into daylight, whispering of a role she isn't ready to accept. But the dreams grow darker and more insistent with every passing week, and the world she thought she understood keeps fracturing at the edges.

The brutal training curriculum is the least of her problems. That title belongs entirely to Keahi—razor-tongued, infuriatingly perceptive, and seemingly dedicated to making Malia's life as difficult as possible. Every cutting remark, every loaded glance, every moment of reluctant alliance when survival demands it only deepens a tension that neither of them can name out loud. Hate and something far more dangerous look alarmingly similar when you're forced to fight side by side.

Set against a richly imagined world where magic carries a price and horror lurks beneath the academy's polished surface, *Arcane* is a pulse-pounding YA romantasy about grief, power, and the impossible pull between two people who would rather be enemies.

The war is coming whether Malia is ready or not—and Keahi might be the only one who can help her survive it.