Arcane

Jarah Aurel

Summary

After an accident killed her parents, Malia's life is turned upside down. She's going to an academy she's never heard of with people who have powers she didn't know existed, preparing for a war she wants to play no part in. 

Only that she will play a part in it, and one much more important than she could've anticipated. 

Will she be able to keep up with the other students or will she fail? Can she possibly be what people expect from her? And more importantly, how will she possibly survive living in the same place as a certain curly-haired, deeply infuriating boy? 

Only time will tell.


Arcane is a uniquely constructed novel that plays over the span of multiple years to show the development of two rivals' relationship as they grow up.
Dive in and leave reality behind in a world full of elemental powers, childhood rivals, and angsty fights.

Available since: 07/06/2023.

Print length: 638 pages.

Contemporary Fiction

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