Mage's Crest: Dark InheritanceDarkness was his inheritance. Defiance became his destiny.In the shadowed halls of Vauclère Château, silence is power-and blood is the price of loyalty.For centuries, the Vauclère name has been bound to the Bloodless Choir, a secret order sworn to erase the magicless and preserve their cruel legacy.But Lucien Vauclère was never meant to be his father's heir.When the Choir's violence steals the only friend he ever loved, he flees the Château's gilded cage to forge his own path-one shaped not by blood, but by choice.Within the Mages Guild, where mages and mundanes stand as equals, Lucien learns to wield his dark and plant magic not as a weapon, but as a vow to protect. Yet the shadows of his past stir once more, and the Choir will stop at nothing to reclaim what they lost.To break free of his family's curse, Lucien must face the silence that forged him-and decide whether he will surrender to the darkness within, or carve his own light through it.A gothic fantasy of legacy, rebellion, and the light that dares to bloom within shadow. 590 Pages