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This is an elegantly written, powerful story built into a Roman-inspired fantasy novel. It has characters with hidden depths, a magical school, and engraved lore etched beautifully into the background of a young man’s tale as he seeks to right the wrongs of his past.
It’s a book that never stops giving and never quite goes where you think it will, right up to an explosive ending that has you begging for a sequel.
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At the elite Catenan Academy, where students are prepared as the future leaders of the Hierarchy empire, the curriculum reveals a layered set of mysteries which turn murderous in this new fantasy by bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington.
Vis, the adopted son of Magnus Quintus Ulcisor, a prominent senator within the Hierarchy, is trained to enter the famed Catenan Academy to help Ulciscor learn what the hidden agenda is of the remote island academy. Secretly, he also wants Vis to discover what happed to his brother who died at the academy. He's sure the current Principalis of…