The Hollow Thread

<p><strong>Where do you turn when even the light denies you?</strong></p><p></p><p>Adrian has spent his life pretending he doesn't care. About power. About belonging. About the truth of who he is.</p><p></p><p>So when he arrives at Mystalia Academy with no noble crest no family legacy and no gift worth boasting of he is a nobody destined to be overlooked among students who measure themselves by bloodline and brilliance.</p><p></p><p>Until the silence around him breaks.</p><p></p><p>Mocked and dragged into rivalries he never wanted Adrian is pushed to the edge-where buried secrets claw free and power takes on a life of its own.</p><p></p><p>But when a duel against a favored heir threatens to reveal a magic too great for him to hold Adrian must choose: remain in obscurity or risk everything on a truth never meant to be his.</p><p>Some legacies are inherited. Others are stolen. And some are born in shadow.</p><p></p><p><em>Book One of the Hollow Thread Quartet</em></p>