A boy with no element. A world built on power. A secret waiting to break.
In Azyrion, every child is chosen by one of the six primal elements-Flame, Water, Earth, Air, Light, or Shadow.
The chosen become Wielders.
The rejected become Hollow.
Ren Varos has spent four years believing he is nothing.
Born into one of the most feared Shadow families in the realm, Ren failed his Binding and now serves his own blood as a housekeeper-ignored by his father, dismissed by his brother, forgotten by the world.
But something stirs inside him on his seventeenth birthday. Something the elements have kept hidden. Something powerful. Dangerous. Impossible.
When Ren's childhood friend Thane returns to drag him out of the Varos estate for one stolen day of freedom, shadows begin to whisper...and the wind starts to answer. Suddenly, Ren is drawn into a rising storm of secrets, political tension, and a threat only he seems able to sense.
Because the elements haven't abandoned him.
They've been waiting.
And when Ren finally awakens, he discovers a power that should not exist-one that shatters ancient laws, terrifies the Orders, and paints a target on his back.
Now hunted, doubted, and thrust into a conflict centuries in the making, Ren must choose:
Hide the truth and stay powerless...
or embrace the elements that chose him and become something the world has feared for generations.
A new era is beginning.
A legend is rising.
"...Is she feverish?" Harlow asked flatly.
"I'm not feverish." I snapped.
"You're babbling about falling out of the sky and magical doors," Harlow countered. "And your pupils are unfocused."
"They are not unfocused!"
Beladora stepped closer and cupped my cheeks, turning my face toward the light. "Oh, sweetheart... your eyes are a little glassy."
I pulled my face back, groaning. "I'm not sick!"
Harlow folder her arms. "Bel, get the thermometer."
My jaw dropped. "Absolutely not."
Beladora smiled warmly. Too warmly. "Absolutely yes."
Harlow lifted me from the chair with one arm, like I weighed the same as a scarf and deposited me on her hip.
(Picture from pinterst: @esterscanon)