Clarissa Bright

Academia Obscura Clarissa Bright

Imprisoned in a gilded cage. Facing an impossible choice: which of my men will survive this.

Which one gets to stay alive.

It's my decision.

The most terrifying decision I have ever had to make.

The most devastating.

I never wanted to be a princess. I never wanted to leave my home. It was what I had to do, so I could bring down the academy.

So I could save the men I was supposed to protect.

But now I'm far away from three of them, thinking that I've saved them, embedded in an affair with a man who used to be a ghost. All while trying desperately to forget about who I used to be before I took my grandfather's offer.

Be the princess.

Come home.

Save your men.

I thought I had given them back their lives. I had been wrong.

They have never stopped being prisoners. Except this time, they are my prisoners.

Prisoners of my desire... and not in the way they had been before.

I decide who lives. I decide who dies.

And if don't make up my mind quickly enough, then we all die.

I'm not going to let that happen. I am going to keep them safe. Even if it means killing my grandfather or not honoring my words. Even if it means spilling innocent blood.

Because I am going to make sure that at least one of my men survives.

No matter the cost.