The Price of Admission (The Girl with the Compass #1) ✔️
43 parts Complete Leila Stormhart is an orphan. Doomsday took her family, her city, and her right to be ordinary. All she has left is her mother's journal--locked, encrypted, and only power can open it. Real power.
Leila wants to enter the Academy of Magical Arts. But without a clan, a name, or a single coin, getting in is impossible. Her only chance is a Contract with one of the powerful. That means passing Trials, attracting attention, and making a deal.
She has no patrons. No connections. Only stubbornness, a runic compass, and a gift for charging artifacts-a basic skill no one cares about.
And then there's the Heir of a noble clan, with whom she had to survive. Entirely against her will.