Michaelherondale Stories

The Institution. Everyone wants to attend this mysterious academy for the Sacred Arts, yet only a few hundred are chosen each year from around the globe. The prodigies, the obscenely rich, and the children of powerful people make up the ranks of those who are accepted. And a single, infinitely lucky lottery winner, who is granted free entry and tuition, as well as on-campus accommodation. Every year, children at the age of sixteen are granted the chance to apply, as well as the offer to take a ticket in the lottery, for free. Millions, even billions, take a ticket. And one of those countless children is Zane. After his mother abandoned him and his father when he was a baby, Zane was thrown into a life of poverty and hardship as his father struggled to keep them out of debt, himself being one of the few people in the world who lacked any mystical ability whatsoever. Now facing the chance of a lifetime should he win the lottery against near impossible odds, Zane has one goal in mind; find his mother.