
She has seven months to train as a warrior and pass the Emperor’s brutal test of strength-all without magic.īut when she’s forced to train with Lord Rhyan Hart, the man she’s secretly loved since she was a girl-a feared warrior in exile himself, forbidden to her in every way-she’s in danger of losing far more than her family, life, and country.

Something that means banishment from the Empire.įaced with death in exile, and leaving her sisters behind, Lyr has no choice but to accept a deadly contract.

And for years, Lyr has sworn to protect her older sisters, helping them conceal their own illicit magic.īut when Lyr must participate in the ceremony that reveals her power, she uncovers something else entirely. Lyr’s own cousin was executed for wielding the wrong kind. He decides who will die for possession of forbidden magic. He decides what magic can be practiced and what powers remain forbidden. Now all Lumerians submit to the Emperor and his strict laws about magic. Bamaria falls under the rule of the Lumerian Empire, survivors of a celestial war whose island sank in the Drowning. 19-year-old mage Lady Lyriana Batavia is third in line to the Seat of Power in Bamaria: a position of wealth and privilege, but not safety.
