The Shadowborn Prince

Just weeks to his twenty-fifth birthday, Prince Kaelen Noctheos is running out of time. Born with a cursed shadow that whispers his fate, he knows what awaits him—a descent into the abyss, where all Shadowborn heirs vanish. Every attempt to fight the curse has only ended in blood. But when an assassin from the Luminari Order infiltrates his prison of a palace, Kaelen discovers a terrifying truth: his death is not an ending—it is a key. Fleeing his kingdom with unlikely allies—a rogue scholar, a swordsmanwith a secret, and the very assassin sent to kill him—Kaelen embarks on a desperate search for the truth. But the deeper he delves, the more the shadow inside him stirs, threatening to consume not just him, but the world itself. As war looms between light and darkness, Kaelen must make an impossible choice: sacrifice himself to seal the abyss forever, or embrace the darkness and become the monster he was meant to stop. One choice will save the world. The other will shatter it.