The Light In The Shadows
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Last published Wed, Jun 18, 2025
In a fractured society where mages are hunted, silenced, and stripped of freedom, seventeen-year-old Lux keeps her head down, her power hidden, and her life small. But when a raid by the ruthless Crownshades turns her world to ash, she finds herself on the run-and in the hands of a secret rebellion known as the Hollow Flame.
Beside her is Kage, a boy haunted by loss and fueled by questions. Together, they're thrust into a war they didn't ask to fight-between those who believe in freedom for all mages, and a rising, brutal faction determined to burn the system to the ground and take power by force.
As tensions rise and loyalties blur, Lux and Kage must decide who they are in a world that's been telling them who to be their whole lives.
Freedom has a cost. The question is: who will pay it?
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