The Fifth Glass

In a kingdom where enchanted wine binds servants to silence and nobles to power, cupbearer Corin makes a fatal mistake: he drinks from the mysterious Fifth Glass meant only for noble lips.

Instead of erasing him, the forbidden magic awakens something dangerous—the ability to see the web of enchantments controlling everyone around him. With the help of Lady Thena, an exiled noble with secrets of her own, Corin discovers that the entire magical hierarchy rests on a foundation of stolen memories and enforced forgetting.

As the Royal Enchanter hunts them through mirrored halls and memory-sealed chambers, Corin and Thena must find a way to shatter the perfect system before Corin's newfound awareness is torn from his mind—and before the fragile feelings growing between them are sacrificed to the old order.