Two academies. One divided world. A flame that refuses to die.

Seventeen-year-old Lyric Elowen was never meant to exist. Born with dual Wandmarks—light and shadow—he's a walking impossibility in a realm that worships balance and purity. When he's admitted to Solara Vale, the Radiant Order's most elite academy, he's meant to become a symbol of unity. Instead, he becomes a weapon, watched by enemies in gold robes and haunted by memories that don't belong to him.

Across the chasm lies Umbra Noctis, the rival school of cursed magic and unsanctioned truths. As tensions escalate between the two Orders, Lyric discovers a hidden legacy—a broken prophecy, a sealed flame, and a fracture in the world known only as the Arcanum Divide.

The deeper he digs, the more he realizes: the divide isn't just in the world. It's in him.

This is the first book in the Arcanum Divide series, an immersive epic of elemental magic, secret legacies, forbidden alliances, and the cost of rewriting fate.