For twenty-five years, Illariana Arden hid the fire she had been raised to call madness.
In Noveris, a universe of twelve magical realms, she learns she was never broken, only born into the wrong world.
Istmond Academy trains the strongest mages, yet her unstable fire resembles nothing they have faced, and Airis Kairos, one of the legendary Twelve Strongest, is the only mage who can control it.
His arrogance and secrecy make him the mentor she never wanted, even as deadly trials approach and a hidden enemy begins targeting the academy's most powerful students.
Caught between dangerous elemental magic, a forbidden slow-burn attraction, and secrets about her identity, Illariana faces a harder test than mastery of her flame: whether she can trust the man able to tame it.
