STAR
FORGED

Phin was always meant for Obscaurim.
I used to be able to write that sentence without my hand shaking.

— Corven Graye, private journal

Phin Vane is a criminal.

She's an adrenaline-chasing relic hunter with a habit of finding things best left buried. Her smirking face and cursed pink hair grace wanted posters across a dozen realms, each one promising gold, glory, or ruin to whoever dares bring her in.

But the bounty on her head is the least of her problems when Phin is torn from the only family she's ever known and cast onto the violent shores of Obscaurim War Academy.

Obscaurim, where the desperate are forged into weapons and the weak become memory.

To survive, Phin hides beneath a glamour, posing as a half-demon man among monsters bred to break dynasties. Her squad: a fire demon who calls her kindling, a Duskwire who sees fate, and her best friend, a genius held together by panic and spite.

Her instructors are worse, and they're circling closer. The blindfolded warlock wants her gone. The smiling Fae collects secrets and worries at them until they bleed. Phin already has his attention.

All she has to do is keep her mouth shut, her secrets buried, and her heart out of it while something in the dark starts hunting cadets.

Too bad Phin has never met a bad idea she couldn't make significantly worse.

CLIMB OR DIE.