Swift Cast
A magical race. A living craft. A rival willing to turn the course itself into a weapon.
Sela Brackenholt has spent her life learning the old Glassroot way: listen before forcing, read the pressure beneath motion, and trust the bond between pilot and craft. That philosophy has made her one of Glassroot Academy's most promising racers-but in the Magi Grand Prix, patience can look like weakness.
The Grand Prix begins above the storm-bright capital of Veyrhold, then tears across impossible terrain: wind-carved canyons, an arcane sea of living currents, a black stone spire, a drowned city whose wards still remember their purpose, frozen peaks, and the fire-lit slopes of Mount Cinderfall. Every stage tests more than speed. It tests judgment, nerve, and the cost of deciding when to help.
Garrick Vane has no use for restraint. Piloting the deadly Blackfin for the Obsidian Hand, he treats the race as proof that power belongs to whoever can seize it. His shadow-work disrupts rivals, corrupts ancient routes, and exposes something buried beneath the course-something the Grand Prix was never meant to wake.
As the race turns from spectacle to survival, Sela's path crosses with Rhys, a precise rival whose damaged craft may still save lives, and Jax, a soot-streaked mechanic whose ugly, improvised signal work cuts through the course's most dangerous lies. To win, Sela must stop thinking of victory as possession and start carrying the truth every dangerous system keeps trying to teach her: nothing survives alone.
Swift Cast is a fast-paced fantasy racing novel for readers who enjoy magical competitions, living machines, academy rivalries, dangerous worlds, and high-stakes adventure where the finish line is only part of the cost.
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