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On her eighteenth birthday, Kavita was supposed to awaken as a mage. Instead she was left powerless- an outsider in a world ruled by magic. Seven years later, she made peace with her fate, studying how magic shapes society while watching her younger brother step into the life she never had.
But when his rare, long forgotten power is revealed, the celebration turns to chaos. An attack leaves the academy in ruins, the elder mages kidnapped-and Kavita dead.
Only death is where her magic begins. Revived with a forbidden gift- the power to command and destroy the dead, kavita must embrace the darkness she never meant to wield. To save her brother, she'll have to become the very thing the gods condemned.
Can a cursed power still be used for good, or will it claim her soul before she can save his?