The Thornbound Vow
Smoke rises from the blackthorn pyre at House Tarrant as Anneliese Tarrant watches her world catch fire in silence. When an ancient binding, long buried beneath the ashes of her fa
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Academy Fantasy books
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- The first 20% of every book, rounded up, so at least one chapter. Across this shelf that is about 4 chapters per book, and every book here is 20 chapters long.
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- The free sample ends at the paywall. Dracon Omni unlocks every chapter of every book on this shelf, including the ones we give away, and keeps them on your devices.
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- 9 authors write them, led by Cassia Marlowe, Dashiell Vex and Ivar Overton. Every one opens its first chapters free.
Academy Fantasy on the shelf
The Ember Concordat
Brynne Calderwell has spent her whole life learning to draw the world , its coasts, its kingdoms, its forgotten corners. When she is accepted into the Cartographer's Order at the L
The Ash-Crowned Pact
Rennick Caelward wakes choking on cinders and the residue of a dream-bird's perch, the ash-crow's furnace-voice still rasping a warning he cannot quite remember. Years ago, as a st
The Ember of Aldermarsh
Beneath the salt-lamp glow of his family's cellar, Wren Tarrow charts a world the academy would rather keep buried. When a junior student turns up murdered and his older sister Eda
The Thornbound Crown
Seventeen-year-old Elowen Ashcroft drags a black-rooted thistle from the peat bogs surrounding the Ashwood Conservatory, then watches a second one sprout, unbidden, from her own cl
The Bastard of Ashfen
In the ash-choked city of Ashfen, gravedigger Porter Shadow splits a skull with his spade and finds something that should not be there: a summons stamped in black wax, bearing the
The Thornbound Queen
Wren Ashcroft is dragged before the Conclave of Velis in chains, her wrists bound with rope that stings of pitch and sorcery. She is accused of wielding a magic that burns silver f
The Ashbound Crown
Smoke stung her eyes before the heat found her skin, and by morning Wren Calloway's little brother was dead, and whispering someone else's name. When the Council of Crowns rides in
The Solis Binding
Marsh-born and silver-blind, Ilyana Marsh has never seen metal that moves like captured sky , until the day the gates of the Aetherian Spire open for her. Summoned into the heart o