MorielFresco
Maya Miyamoto has always seen things other people cannot.
Ghosts in empty hallways. Shadows in reflections. Voices that crawl into her mind and whisper every fear she tries to hide. Half Japanese, half Filipina, and struggling to find her place in the world, Maya only wants a normal student life-good grades, friends, maybe even the courage to talk to the mysterious boy who saved her on the train.
But during a solar eclipse, something notices her.
After a demon attack at Hotel Fresco, Maya is pulled into the hidden world of the House of El, a secret student residence in Leiden where magic, faith, ancient spirits, and angelic warriors exist behind ordinary life. Its students are not only studying for exams. They are training to fight demons, jinn, ghosts, and the darkness that feeds on human pain.
As Maya discovers enchanted bracelets, portals across Europe, angelic classes, and students marked by lions, doves, owls, and bulls, she realizes the House of El did not invite her by accident.
A Prince of Hell is searching for her.
And the road ahead may lead far beyond the Netherlands-toward forgotten gods, buried secrets, and the gates of Elysium itself.
Because Maya's greatest enemy may not only be the demons outside.
It may be the voice inside her telling her she was never worthy of the light.
House of El: The Road to Elysium is a YA fantasy adventure about faith, self-worth, found family, supernatural warfare, and learning how to love before the darkness learns how to use you.