Wandless

Sixteen-year-old Olive has spent two years surviving on the streets of Appalachia, picking locks, keeping her head down, and hiding the strange power that stirs when she's scared or angry. She's always known she was different. She just didn't know she was dangerous until the day she made a couple of kids invisible.
Now Olive is dragged into Morwynth Hall, a secret magical academy that doesn't accept outsiders, especially not wandless casters like her. But Olive doesn't want the power she's supposed to crave. She just wants to survive.
That becomes harder after she humiliates Jeremy Halrowe, Morwynth's golden boy, in a duel she should never have been able to win. Raised to believe wandless magic is unstable and extinct, Jeremy is rattled. Instead of reporting her, a heated exchange lands him a punishment neither of them wants. He becomes her tutor.
What follows is rivalry, tension, and a dangerous closeness neither of them can afford.
As Olive's magic grows and old ways begin to whisper back to life, she's forced to choose. She can keep trying to disappear. Or she can stop letting the world decide who she's allowed to be.