THE OBSIDIAN TRIAL: Book One of The Sovereign’s War Series

Kael Morven wasn't supposed to survive the mining accident. He definitely wasn't supposed to stop a falling crane with magic he didn't know he had.

When recruiters from the Ashen Academy arrive offering admission and enough gold to pay his mother's debts, Kael knows the offer is too good to be true. He's right. The Academy's gleaming halls hide a brutal hierarchy where common-born students are assigned to the lowest tier, given the worst rooms, and reminded daily that they don't belong.

But Kael's wild magic—untrained, volatile, and growing stronger—makes him valuable. Valuable enough that some people want to study him. Others want to control him. And a few want to make him disappear entirely.

When a centuries-old conspiracy surfaces, Kael discovers that students with rare magical abilities have been vanishing for years. The Academy's legendary tournament becomes his only path to protection—if he can survive trials designed to break him, alliances with former enemies, and a transformation that might cost him everything he is.

Coal burns. Diamonds just sit there looking pretty.

Kael's about to show the Academy exactly what happens when you underestimate someone who was forged in fire.

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