Novels

When she heard the news that Lumika University would be hosting this year’s Spirit Festival, the country’s largest amateur sorcerers’ competition, freshman student Shyn Shirolei expected many things from the disruption of her classes to the flood of strangers in the streets. None of those expectations, however, had included having to save one particularly strange stranger from an even more peculiar assailant. Nor had they included becoming the involuntary new owner of a fragment of some mysterious artifact covered in arcane runes no one can read.

Now, instead of sitting back and enjoying the festivities, Shyn has to track down the real owner of the artifact fragment and find out why it’s so important while assisting her friend Kaytis with debunking rumors that the Lumika U team is cursed.

Lumika, known around the world as the city of magic, is also home to the prestigious Lumika University, a leading institution in magitech research. However, not everyone who attends Lumika U is there for an education. Some are looking for recognition, and some are looking for revenge. Still others are only passing through on their way to bigger and better things.

All first-year student Shyn Shirolei really wants is a fresh start and access to Lumika University’s unparalleled libraries. Unfortunately, as the daughter of a seer, she knows better than anyone that life seldom unfolds as planned. When a body falls from the sky on her first day on campus, she finds herself caught in the middle of events that seem unsettling even for a school where furniture walks around on its own and memories can be kept on trees. With a roommate who seems like she already has her entire life figured out and a new friend who seems obsessed with the magical relics of the legendary Spectral Court, Shyn’s first semester as a university freshman is turning out to be a lot more complicated than she had hoped. 

“There’s a shadow over the university,” Shyn’s mother had told her. If only she’d paid more attention. 

Despite the protests of his city’s master mage, Kavin, a young healer, sets out to answer a call for help. His troubles begin with a rude traveler and do not end with the appearance of a sinister, three-eyed man.