An Affinity for Burning - La série

What happens when the girl you loved becomes your enemy? What happens if you still don't want her to be? Bea and Saffyr are among the Affinity-Wielders—a group of girls born once every generation with superhuman abilities. Like all Affinity-Wielders, they spend their childhood hidden away from the rest of the world at the academy training and honing their abilities in order to compete in a series of trials once they reach 18. Four years before the trials are set to begin however, disaster strikes and every other Wielder is left dead. And one of the girls might have been behind it. Now, four years later, they're reunited as enemies to see which one of them will win the trial, a claim the thrown, the ability to keep their power, and the prince's hand in marriage. But what if neither of them want that anymore?

Saffyr Tremblay's done exactly what she was supposed to do. After tricking her only competition into leaving, she's won the boy. The crown. The ability to keep her Affinity. But life within the castle is not what it appears to be and she's quickly wrapped up in a sinister secret spanning decades. With both her life and the life of the girl she's in love with hanging in the balance, she's now fighting for far more than just a crown. Luckily, she's not all she appears to be either. A Penchant for Growth is still one giant childhood friends to enemies to friends to childhood crushes back to enemies to friends to lovers trope masquerading as a book except this time they spend even more time talking about their feelings than actually moving the plot forward. It's still told in 2 POVs, but this time Saffyr's is front and center because it's always been her story to save or destroy, for better or worse.