Book Description
Hannah West weaves enchanting romances, epic journeys, and deadly power struggles in this bloody and dark fantasy.
Valory Braiosa, descendant of ancient heroes, has a chip on her shoulder. She attends a magical training academy for elicromancers, an immortal magic people, but with hardly any magical gifts to speak of Valory feels entirely out of place. Then tragedy strikes and she accidentally absorbs all of the Water, which grants elicromancers their full abilities, winding up with far more magic than she can master. On the run after losing control of her magic, Valory is desperate to convince the Council not to take away her power. But when she comes up against a terrifying king who collects magical beings as if they were trinkets, building a collection of living weapons constrained under his power, Valory's fight to prove her innocence becomes a treacherous quest to stop evil from taking control of the kingdom.