The Dread Descendant
Lauren Cate Leake
The Dread Descendant #1
A magic student and the youngest Supreme in history train together — and discover their union is forbidden.
Description
Some bloodlines won't stay buried. . .At Vaukore, the most prestigious Magical university in all seven realms, Maeve Sinclair is content to study Practical Magic. At least until Malachite Peur, the youngest Supreme Magical in history, makes a tempting offer to train her in Combative Magic instead.Soon the pair find themselves on a search for powerful Magical objects that haven't been seen in centuries. While the prophecy of the Dread Descendant unravels around them, they navigate politics, war, and their forbidden union.After all. . . blood calls to blood. Like calls to like.And Magic calls to Magic.
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