Obsidian

"What do you mean, going a long way?"

Knet raised an eyebrow. "You're going to join us, Cintha. What else are you going to do with that power? Let it stay in you, dormant, rotting away?"

A sixteen-year-old orphan living on the streets of a corrupted kingdom, where mages use their skills for evil and riches, Cintha has always known she was different from the others. When her only friend is taken by soldiers of the Empire, she joins the Ebony Corps, an organisation bent on overthrowing the Emperor, in a moment of weakness.