Sora has spent most of her life without a voice and without answers.
Her parents disappeared when she was seven years old, leaving behind a past she can barely remember and questions no one has ever been able to answer.
Then an unexpected acceptance letter arrives from Blackwood Academy, a mysterious school for the gifted. Included with it is something impossible to ignore: a photograph of Sora as a child standing beside the parents she lost.
Determined to uncover the truth, Sora accepts.
But Blackwood Academy is nothing like she expects.
Hidden beneath the ordinary students and ancient halls is a world protected by old rules, powerful bloodlines, and a truce that has survived for generations. Strange things begin happening almost as soon as Sora arrives. Objects move on their own. Shadows seem to follow her. A mysterious symbol keeps appearing, and something inside her is beginning to awaken.
Then she meets Mordius.
Powerful, secretive, and frustratingly difficult to trust, Mordius knows far more about Sora than he is willing to admit. As danger closes in and her twenty-fifth birthday approaches, Sora begins to realize her arrival at Blackwood was never an accident.
The truth about her parents is buried somewhere within the academy.
And finding it may reveal something even more terrifying.
The biggest secret at Blackwood Academy might be Sora herself.