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The Mage's Awakening: the Fracture Beneath the Stone
On the Day of Choosing, sixteen-year-old Cody expects nothing.
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About The Mage's Awakening: the Fracture Beneath the Stone
On the Day of Choosing, sixteen-year-old Cody expects nothing. Orphaned, unremarkable, and the last boy standing in the village square, he has resigned himself to the copper mines-until the Duke's own mage selects him for magical apprenticeship. But Cody's selection is no accident. Within the shadow-draped halls of Castle Kade, Cody discovers that magic demands more than study-it demands sacrifice. His First Sigil, inscribed over his heart, awakens abilities that haven't been seen in sixty years. Abilities tied to a forbidden bloodline the kingdom tried to erase. He is Aetherian. And the Duke knows it. As Cody's power grows, so does the danger. The Duke Morden Kade extends his unnatural life through dark rituals that drain the living, and he's preparing something far worse-a ceremony that will require hundreds of deaths to fuel his ambition. Cody's heritage makes him both threat and tool, and the mentor he trusted walks a razor's edge between protector and conspirator. Separated from his foster brother, hunted by those who fear what he represents, and bearing sigils that mark him as a relic of a murdered dynasty, Cody must choose: hide what he is and survive, or embrace his birthright and risk becoming exactly what the kingdom fears. In a world where magic flows through the land like blood through veins, one boy must learn whether power is meant to command-or to listen.
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