Terrathela

Briar Haverford knows nothing of the Red Order or the search for the next element mages. What he does know is that he was gifted with magic upon birth and his father has spent seventeen years attempting to beat it out of him. His only friend, perhaps more than that, is Endy. Briar's tenuous grip on what seems to be a double-life is shattered when the Red Order arrives at his village, seeking to purge the next generation of mages at the source.

Outed in more ways than one and forced to flee the only place he's ever known, Briar sets off through the wilds of Kelleran in hopes of fitting a new life for himself and mending his nearly-broken soul. But the Red Order is not easily swayed when in pursuit of something powerful, and Briar is unmatched in his talents with the Earth.

Finnegan Shephard is a shifter, one of Kelleran's most unpredictable races, though the most fiercely loyal. Reeling from betrayal and heartache, Finn sees in Briar something the Fae mage hasn't been able to see in himself - a second chance, and a glimmer of something much, much larger than the pair of them.

As the Red Order continues to gather power, and the Kelleran High Council scrambles to find the new element mages before full-scale war breaks out, Briar and Finn struggle to come to terms with not only where they've come from, but where they're going.

And, more importantly, convincing one spirit-weary Fae he just may be the Terrathela when it's the last thing he wants to claim.