The Dying Light

In a dystopian future, magic runs wild while technology rules the world. After the second war with the Cretarians, the race of people who could wield magic and powerful abilities, humans have retreated into Bound societies where they hide from the Cretarians. The humans have found a way to protect themselves from the power of the Cretarians and have put huge numbers of people in cities with the Boundary around them, to protect them. Within these Bound cities, Academies have been placed to train the youngest soldiers to be able to defeat the Cretarian threat once and for all.

Thackeray Swann, one of the brightest minds of his age, has been chosen to go beyond the Boundary to study the Cretarian world but what he gets is anything less than what he expected. Suddenly when his world is turned upside down, he is thrust into the ongoing battle between Light and Dark, a war that has been raging for centuries. Everything he has known has changed and with it his view on this Bound world. Maybe there is a chance for redemption when he meets Kida, the deadly but beautiful princess of the Cretarians who shows him the truth of the world and with it, the power of the Light. But the light is dying and only this rebellious soldier can save it.