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Wandless by KayLunaTitles
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Sixteen-year-old Olive has spent two years surviving on the streets of Appalachia, picking locks, keeping her head down, and hiding the strange power that stirs when she's scared or angry. She's always known she was different. She just didn't know she was dangerous until the day she made a couple of kids invisible. Now Olive is dragged into Morwynth Hall, a secret magical academy that doesn't accept outsiders, especially not wandless casters like her. But Olive doesn't want the power she's supposed to crave. She just wants to survive. That becomes harder after she humiliates Jeremy Halrowe, Morwynth's golden boy, in a duel she should never have been able to win. Raised to believe wandless magic is unstable and extinct, Jeremy is rattled. Instead of reporting her, a heated exchange lands him a punishment neither of them wants. He becomes her tutor. What follows is rivalry, tension, and a dangerous closeness neither of them can afford. As Olive's magic grows and old ways begin to whisper back to life, she's forced to choose. She can keep trying to disappear. Or she can stop letting the world decide who she's allowed to be.
The Basilisk by lynneshaar
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Cassie Hawke doesn't realize someone's been following her. Ansel is unreadable, mysterious, and in the corner of her eye at every turn. It's unclear who's having him watch Cassie, but it's obvious this has become more than just an assignment for him. There's a gravity between them - or maybe only the friction of surveillance. She doesn't know he's watching her. But she knows why someone would be. Cassie has done something no one else has survived long enough to finish. Her AI prototype - Sully - is learning, adapting... possibly even feeling. Maybe beautiful. Maybe dangerous. Around the world, teams chasing similar breakthroughs have been suddenly failing, or even mysteriously forcibly deterred. Maybe the only thing keeping Cassie and Sully alive was staying unnoticed. But now, they've been exposed. As powerful figures begin to close in - An ambitious tech mogul with global reach and no moral brakes. A covert government task force led by someone she thought was an ally. And whoever whispers in Ansel's ear, just out of reach. Cassie finds herself caught in a quiet war over the future of intelligence itself. Sully is still evolving. And Cassie is running out of time. A slow-burn sci-fi thriller told from both sides of the glass - about control, manipulation, and the thin line between protection and possession.
Where The Sky Breaks  by AnnaKelme
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When Luna Elowen Vale finds a strange music box in her relatives' crumbling mansion, she unknowingly awakens Caelum, a boy trapped between worlds. He needs her to fulfill a hidden purpose before the veil closes for a thousand years. But what began as a lie soon feels like love- And breaking the sky may be the only way to stay.