Warriors of Magic

Only in an insane world would a young wizard find herself battling monsters and automatons one day and returning to Convocation Academy to cram for finals the next.But this is the world Alise Phel lives in. Like it or not, Alise must face the consequences of ditching out a second time and dealing with the crushing workload assigned to her as a punishment. Worse yet, succeeding at the Academy means Alise must learn to master her powerful and unusual magicthe same magic that caused her to accidentally murder her own mother. But graduating is her only way to protect the family she has leftand perhaps save the Convocation itself. Cillian Harahel is a wizard of the mind. An archivist. A disciplined thinker. Thus, he absolutely cannot be in love with Alise Phel. Apart from the fact that he is faculty and she's a studentone destined for far more greatness than a lowly librarian like himthe provost has told him in no uncertain terms that Alise is off limits, which would be much more of a problem if Alise actually remembered he was alive. Cillian has resigned himself to being Alises friend and mentor, but when she cuts off even that much contact, in the coldest way possible, he suspects that darker forces than either of them imagined are haunting her. Alise has made it clear she wants nothing to do with him, but how can he abandon her to the demons clawing at her, from her Houses enemies to the doubts plaguing her own heart?

Librarian Cillian Harahel and Wizard Alise Phel have fled Convocation Academy in the dark of night and grip of winter, taking with them the hidden archives they liberated from hiding. The effort of magically holding onto the massive archives-everything to do with House Phel and the conspiracy against it-is draining Cillian nearly to death. Alise wants only to get him to the house of his birth, and hopefully save his life. But the young lovers are soon separated by their warring families. While Cillian remains at House Harahel to begin the painstaking work of restoring the archives, Alise goes home to the only home she has left: House Phel. There, she finds her sister, Nic, giving birth. But the joyful event is soon shattered by the arrival of their father, Lord Elal. Forced to make a choice between her niece's wellbeing and her own, a broken-hearted Alise returns to House Elal with her father, agreeing to be molded into his creature. Cut off from each other, Cillian and Alise struggle to find the answers they desperately need-and, perhaps, find one another again.