Veins of Forgotten Runes: A Dark Magical Academy Romantasy

The Rune Academy Dark Magical Academy Romantasy Series Book1

By: R.F. Price

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Her runes should not exist. His magic should never have been born. Together, they might wake the power that ends them both.

Liora Kane has spent her life hiding the living runes that crawl beneath her skin. They shift when she feels too much, whisper when the world is quiet, and match nothing in any text she’s ever found. Branded dangerous and cast out by her own people, she comes to Rune Academy with one fragile hope—learn control, keep her head down, and finally stop being afraid of herself.

Rune Academy isn’t interested in letting her stay invisible.

When the academy’s infamous Nullborn, Draven Slate, tries to steal one of Liora’s runes under the headmistress’s orders, the attempt explodes in both their faces. Instead of obeying his shadow-binding magic, Liora’s extinct sigils fuse with it—creating a volatile tether between them that spills thoughts, emotions, and power in both directions. Now, every spike of fear, anger, or reluctant attraction risks setting off magic neither of them can control.

Then the runes start vanishing.

Ancient wards flicker out in the halls. Relics lose the inscriptions that once held them together. A student wakes up with bare skin where a lifelong mark used to be. As panic spreads, Liora feels each disappearance like a phantom wound beneath her own runes, pulling her attention downward—toward the Veinwell Ruins buried under the academy, and the sealed source of magic that should have stayed asleep.

Forced into an uneasy alliance, Liora, Draven, and the Deep Stacks archivist, Thorne Reed, begin digging through forbidden texts and forgotten tunnels. What they uncover points to a hidden blood cult, a ritual called the Veinwell Covenant, and a living “vessel” whose impossible runes can open the world’s original source of power. The deeper they go, the more one thing becomes horrifyingly clear:

The Veinwell isn’t just waking.
It’s calling her.

As storms gather over the academy, wards crack, and loyalties fracture, Liora must decide whether to keep running from what she is… or stand in the center of a ritual that could destroy her, save everyone, or bind her forever to the one person who was never meant to touch her magic in the first place.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Dark Magical Academy Romantasy with gothic, storm-soaked atmosphere
• Slow-burn, high-tension enemies-to-lovers with forced proximity
• Forbidden magic, secret societies, and deadly academy trials
• Living runes, shadow-stealing powers, and a dangerous magical bond
• Found-family threads woven through mystery and political intrigue

Veins of Forgotten Runes launches a new Dark Magical Academy Romantasy series where every heartbeat hums with forbidden power, every secret carved into stone has a price, and every choice Liora makes pulls her closer to the boy who was sent to steal her magic… and may be the only one strong enough to stand with her when the Veinwell finally wakes.

If you crave gothic academies, dangerous magic, and addictive slow-burn fantasy romance, step into Rune Academy and let the runes decide who you really are.