The Holy Solarian Empire. A land where the purity of one's blood and the power of one's magic determines their life's course. Lily Alcyone, the half-fey daughter of the highborn matriarch Juno Alcyone, has always known that possessing the latter does little to negate the former. Shortly before her twentieth birthday, she departs the Alcyone manor for the Imperial Academy of Magic in the hopes of awakening her latent magical talent... moreThe Holy Solarian Empire. A land where the purity of one's blood and the power of one's magic determines their life's course. Lily Alcyone, the half-fey daughter of the highborn matriarch Juno Alcyone, has always known that possessing the latter does little to negate the former. Shortly before her twentieth birthday, she departs the Alcyone manor for the Imperial Academy of Magic in the hopes of awakening her latent magical talent. Bereft of the shimmering crystalline manashard, the mark of a Solarian mage of power, Lily finds herself isolated from her peers, viewed with distrust and even fear. Rose Merope, the only daughter of wealthy Fiallan entrepreneur Cassius Merope, is discovered to possess magic's spark within her soul. Her innate affinity, stronger than any ever observed within the Merope family lineage, leads the headstrong young woman to study abroad in the Solarian Empire. As a foreigner alone in a land distrustful of all others, marked as inferior by her dark skin and common ancestry, Rose struggles to find her place within the archaic and xenophobic Empire. Through happenstance or perhaps fate, the two meet... and the course of history will be forever altered. A chance encounter plunges Lily and Rose headlong into a dangerous world of forbidden magic, political intrigue and the ever-looming specter of war and a terrible calamity that threatens all People, human and fey alike. MIDNIGHT'S BLOSSOM is the first chapter in the exciting tale of Lily, Rose, their friends and allies as they find themselves thrust into danger at the heart of the evil and corruption that threatens the entire world! less
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