At fifteen, Ean Valecrest has spent years hiding the strange things only he can see.
Then a letter arrives from Nouvasc, a hidden school for Aura Bearers, offering him something he has never had: a place where the wind around him does not need an explanation.
But Nouvasc is not the refuge it seems.
Students are being severed from the sentient Auras bonded to them, leaving them alive, conscious-and terrifyingly empty.
As Ean begins to uncover a pattern of disappearances, forbidden research, and secrets buried beneath the school, the silver locket his mother died protecting begins to awaken. Inside it waits a presence that has been silent for seven years-and a choice Ean is not sure he is ready to make.
Meanwhile, a woman with golden eyes is watching.
She remembers a time before humans and Auras were bound together, and she believes the ancient Covenant was never an act of partnership at all.
To save Nouvasc, Ean must decide what it truly means to be chosen, what it means to choose in return-and whether any power worth having can ever be owned.
Nothing that matters is owned. It is chosen.
The Aura Bearers and the Broken Covenant is Book One of The Aura Bearers, a YA fantasy series of magical schools, sentient elemental beings, ancient secrets, friendship, identity, and the dangerous difference between partnership and control.