The Awakening
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Sixteen-year-old Xabiere Knight was just trying to survive his first year at Ashbourne Academy a school for the supernatural, the powerful, and the deadly.
But when a forbidden archive unlocks something ancient buried in his blood, Xabiere becomes the center of a prophecy no one wants to talk about and everyone seems afraid of.
Now shadows whisper his name. Magic bends around him. And the people closest to him may not be what they seem.
Ashbourne has rules. Xabiere was born to break them.
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