Veyden: Book 1- Wanderbourne

For nineteen years, David Novak assumed the weird static buzzing under his skin was just a defect.
​Broke, aging out of a broken foster system, and trapped in a dying Washington town, David's plan for life was simple: keep your head down and don't let anyone notice when things around you explode.
​But magic isn't supposed to work the way David does it.
​When he's pulled into the hidden world of the Veyden-a secret society of mages bound to ancient bloodlines and elemental powers-he learns the hard truth. Magic is strict. It's limited. It taxes the body, burns out the mind, and demands a heavy price from everyone who wields it.
​Except David.
​Unclaimed, untrained, and born without a house, David is a Wanderbourne. But as he's dragged into a world of hidden estates, ancient rivalries, and nightmare horrors creeping out of the dark, he discovers a terrifying anomaly: the magic that should be killing him doesn't even make him catch his breath.
​Alongside Jacob-a broad-shouldered farm boy with a dark side-and Katrina, a sister who's as sharp as she is dangerous, David sets out to hunt down others like him before hostile houses can eliminate them.
​But in a world built on ancient blood, shadow politics, and buried secrets, survival comes at a lethal cost. Because David is about to learn that some monsters should stay in the dark.
​And sometimes, some people are never meant to be found.