Veil of Forgotten Names

At Shadowveil Academy, forgetting is not a failure. It is a weapon. Calista Wren knows this better than anyone. As the academy's quiet, meticulous librarian, she has spent three years hiding in the restricted archive, cataloguing forbidden histories and keeping dangerous secrets including her own. Her ability to erase names and the memories attached to them with a single touch has made her one of the most powerful and most careful people at Shadowveil.
She has built her life around a single rule: do not let anyone know you well enough to lose. Then the Shadow Princes arrive, and everything she has built begins to change. Malcolm Voss is cold, controlled, and quietly fracturing his shadow magic suffocating under the weight of a family betrayal he has never been permitted to name. Adrian Kane draws obsessively to hold onto the memories his shadows are stealing, filling sketchbook after sketchbook with a face he is terrified of losing entirely.
Julian Cross practices alone in the dark against blast-scored walls because every qualified supervisor has decided his volatile magic is too dangerous to be near. All three of them are losing pieces of themselves. Their shadow magic is unravelling from the inside, eating at the edges of their identities, and the Ministry of Arcane Regulation has given them a deadline demonstrate sufficient control by the end of term, or face the Decree of Eternal Forgetting.
Complete and permanent erasure. No memories. No name. No self. When the three of them find their way to Calista's archive, something impossible happens. In her presence, the unravelling slows. The shadows settle. The magic finds an anchor it has been reaching for without knowing what it was reaching toward. And the closer they get to her, the more she realises that the archive she has been protecting all this time was never only the collection.
It was herself. Veil of Forgotten Names is a slow-burn Why Choose paranormal romance about memory, identity, and the extraordinary courage it takes to stop erasing yourself. It is for readers who believe that being truly known is the most dangerous and most necessary thing a person can choose.