Ashbound Academy

Kael Varyn never believed in magic.

He believed in survival, in hard lessons, and in the kind of monsters that wore human faces. But when a violent encounter awakens a fire inside him that should not exist, Kael is taken to Ashbound Academy-a hidden school carved into the mountains, where dangerous students are not celebrated.

They are contained.

At Ashbound, magic is not a gift. It is a weapon. A burden. A curse waiting for weakness.

But Kael's power is different.

His fire remembers.

As students...