Ever After

Here's a version with the common AI tells (heavy em-dash chains, rule-of-three lists, "perfect for fans of" boilerplate) smoothed out: Being royalty was never the hard part. Surviving it is.Neve White never asked for the crown. Or the legacy. Or the way people say "son of Snow White" like it explains everything about him. At Everglow Academy, a castle school built for the children of fairytale legends, status is currency, and the poisoned apple on his crown makes him a target before he's said a word.The school splits its students into three: the golden, exam-earning Royals, the villain-blooded Afterlives, and Neve's own faction, the Eternities, descended from heroes and heroines. All three get thrown into the Glow Trials, a week of survival in an enchanted forest where teams hunt down scattered pages of forbidden fairytale lore.Neve has Caspian Seabrook, half-feral and sea-scaled, and a scrappy little found family to lean on, and for the first time the Trials start to feel like something other than one more burden. Then a blade finds his spine in the middle of the woods, and it turns out someone is not as "out of business" as everyone assumed.Someone at Everglow doesn't want the Eternities to win. And Neve doesn't think it's over.A fairytale academy story about legacy, found family, and figuring out how to be more than the myth you were born into.