Blood Over Bright Haven: A Novel

Sciona has spent twenty years studying magic with one goal: to become the first woman admitted to the High Magistry at the University of Magics and Industry. When she finally passes the qualifying exam and becomes a highmage, she discovers her new colleagues are hostile to her presence. Rather than providing a qualified lab assistant, they assign her a janitor. Unknown to Sciona and her peers, her taciturn assistant has a hidden past. Ten years earlier, he was a nomadic hunter whose family was lost during their journey from the wild plains to the city. He now sees a chance to understand the forces that destroyed his tribe, displaced him from his homeland, and maintain the power of the privileged. As the mage and outsider work together despite their initial friction, they uncover an ancient secret with the potential to transform magic itself—if the discovery doesn't prove fatal to them both.