The Prince of Cursed Shadows

Prince Kael, heir to the kingdom of Blackthorn, has lived his entire life without a shadow, earning him the feared title of the Shadow Prince, until one night his missing shadow suddenly appears and leads him into a forbidden chamber beneath the castle. There, Kael encounters a mysterious silver-crowned woman who reveals that his shadow is not a curse but an ancient inheritance tied to a three-hundred-year-old bargain between his royal ancestors and the Shadow King, an entity that still rules beneath the kingdom. Kael discovers that every king in his bloodline was eventually consumed by the darkness, while his father attempted to break the curse and ultimately transferred his own shadow to Kael, making the prince the key to the kingdom's fate. As his father's voice emerges from the monstrous shadow and every lantern in Blackthorn suddenly goes dark, Kael learns that an ancient war for the throne has begun and that he must uncover the truth about his bloodline, control the deadly power within his shadow, and confront the Shadow King before the curse consumes him and destroys the kingdom.