She didn't mean to hex him. She absolutely meant to fix it.
When Iris Vane — a scholarship student with a gift too powerful for her own community to understand — accidentally fires a truth-compulsion hex into Thornwick Academy's most untouchable legacy student on day five, she has two choices: confess, or run. She confesses.
Now she has thirty days to reverse what she's done. Thirty days of locked-library sessions, forced proximity, and the slow, suffocating realization that Noah Vale — composed, meticulous, every inch the golden-boy heir his family built him to be — is not at all who she expected. Because the hex didn't find a flaw in him. It found a wound. The same wound she's been carrying since she was seven years old and first told that her magic was too much, too loud, too her.
The hex only compels him to speak the truth. It never forced either of them to want it.
What starts as a disciplinary reversal project becomes something neither of them has language for — joint research uncovering a buried founding history, a restricted library with opinions, a two-hundred-year-old legacy of women erased from the record, and a connection so precisely calibrated to who they each actually are that no mechanism can explain it. The magic didn't create what's between them. It just refused to let them keep hiding from it.
The problem isn't that Iris hexed Noah Vale.
The problem is what they found inside the hex — and what it will cost both of them to stay honest once it's gone.
If you've been waiting for a paranormal romance where the slow burn is built on radical honesty, the magic is deeply personal, and the love story earns every single word of its ending — this is the one.
Cursed at First Sight is a complete standalone paranormal academy romance featuring an accidental truth hex, a restricted library with strong opinions, enemies-adjacent to lovers, a scholarship girl who contains multitudes, a legacy boy learning to take up space, and a happily ever after that was never in question — only in reach.
Perfect for readers who love smart, slow-burn paranormal romance with real emotional stakes and magic that means something.
