The Invisible College

A mortal sorcerer works to counter the dark magic of an ancient race awakening to wage war on mortals in this epic fantasy. Millennia ago, the Aesir, a magical race, found a new home on a distant world. Attracted to the cold during an ice age, they hibernated for hundreds of years at a time. With each awakening, they discovered their world changed by ever-evolving mortals encroaching on their territory. Two civilizations with opposing magic have clashed repeatedly. Now the Aesir are awakening to wage a new war—to exterminate mortals once and for all. Robinson Hawksley is an elocutionist at the Invisible College who teaches speech to train sorcerers using the intelligences that create magic. The world needs more sorcerers to protect against the looming Aesir threat. Robinson's newest student is McKenna Foster, a barrister's daughter rendered deaf after a plague unleashed by the Aesir. As their lessons progress and they grow closer, a strange connection to the Aesir emerges—one that crosses the boundaries of time itself and touches unfathomable mysteries of the Unseen Powers. As the Aesir emerge from their icy fortresses and begin their bombardment, Robinson and McKenna must determine if they can stop an endless war using powers they have yet to fully understand.