“Step Toward the Darkness” is a fantasy novel by Olga Valenteeva, the first book of the cycle “Viktor Veiran,” genre: romantic fantasy, adventure fantasy. When you are the heir of the strongest light-magical house, too much is expected of you. But Viktor Veiran won’t let anyone look down on him. He has no intention of fulfilling other people’s expectations—so instead of the bright academy, he enrolls in a dark-magic gymnasium. Except fate loves to joke. Her first trick is giving the same person both light and darkness. And the next ones will flip his life upside down.