A KINGDOM ON THE BRINK OF DISASTER

The world is stirring. The tenuous peace between the triplet Kingdoms of Aetherium has grown unsettled. The anti-magic Border around Aeos has begun to falter…and dark forces are making their move…

A WOMAN CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE

Hazel Callahan is the proud daughter of a hardworking innkeeper. Or at least she was…until a near-fatal encounter with a nightmarish creature causes her to draw on power she didn’t know she had. A power that could mean her death in a kingdom where magic has been banned and witches exiled for nearly as long as she’s been alive. One that brings her face-to-face with an undesirable reality about her late mother and a quest to uncover the truth.

A DISGRUNTLED WITCH HUNTER WITH A SECRET

Slaide Elias is an infamous shadow-wielding witch hunter driven by hatred of witch-kind and fueled by his loathing of the King, despite having spent his life in servitude to the Crown. He’s ready to gamble for his freedom, and Hazel’s arrival to Ravenhold proves to be a timely bargaining chip—if he can keep her alive.

A TRIAL OF CHAMPIONS AND A TWIST OF FATE

Given the choice between facing the will of the Magistry who wants to dissect her and a tournament that will likely kill her, Hazel chooses the latter, hoping her unlikely alliance with Slaide will be enough to see her through. And if he wants to win his freedom, Slaide must keep her out of trouble, even if that’s easier said than done.

While the trials themselves test fortitude, adaptability, and loyalty to the crown, Hazel quickly realizes her continued survival also means navigating broken friendships, devastating truths, and a complex relationship with a grumpy witch hunter…all while keeping her untamed magic under wraps.

Only then will she have a chance to uncover the dark truth about her parentage and her place in a future the Fates have already written.