The Triwizard Tournament was supposed to be simple. Represent your school. Win glory. Try not to die. For Alora Oliveira, champion of Castelobruxo, Hogwarts has been everything she expected and nothing she imagined. The castle is colder than home, the students stranger, and the politics between the old wizarding families far more complicated than she anticipated. Then there's Rhys Van Doren. A Slytherin with a reputation for cruelty, a pure-blood supremacist attitude, and enough detentions to fill an entire trophy case. Most students avoid him. Alora, unfortunately, keeps running into him. It starts with arguments. Then late-night conversations. Then secret meetings where neither of them can quite explain why they keep showing up. Rhys represents everything Alora was raised to despise: blood purity, arrogance, and the lingering shadows of the Dark Arts. Alora represents everything Rhys never understood: warmth, kindness, loyalty, and a world beyond old pure-blood expectations. Neither intends to change. Neither intends to care. Yet as the Tournament grows more dangerous and secrets buried within Hogwarts begin to surface, the line between enemies and something far more complicated becomes increasingly difficult to ignore.
Rhys Van Doren is a sixteen-year-old Slytherin from an ancient pure-blood family. Cold, intelligent, and notoriously unpleasant, he has spent most of his life cultivating a reputation that keeps people at arm's length. He excels in dueling, non-verbal magic, and Dark Arts theory, while openly mocking anything he considers weak. Behind the arrogance lies someone burdened by the legacy of a dead Death Eater father, an absent mother, and expectations he can never seem to escape. Most students hate him. Some fear him. Very few know him.
Release Date 2026.06.03 / Last Updated 2026.06.03