Ashes Beneath The Grove
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Last published Tue, Jul 28, 2026
Some cages are made of stone. Others are made of roots.
Nyla is buried in the dark. Locked away in the high-security vaults of Eldergrove Academy, she is completely severed from the world, trapped by an institution determined to make her disappear.
But behind the locked doors, survival requires a dangerous price. To stay alive, she must embrace a volatile, forbidden power that violates every law of elemental magic-a chaotic force that threatens to consume her from the inside out.
The lines have been drawn. The lies are unraveling. And when the cage finally shatters, the modern world will have to face whatever walks out of the dark.
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