Lavender And Steel (Shards Of Time Chronicles)

In a world where magic is feared and tightly controlled, twenty-seven-year-old Maela Malorry’s life shatters when she takes the fall for her brother’s crime committed with magic.After encountering death in Obsidian Prison, nightmares claw at her mind, so vivid and merciless they blur the line between dream and reality, leaving her to wonder if something far darker has followed her back from the brink.Her chains are broken, yet her fate is sealed at War Nova Academy, where magic spirits rule life and death. Maela must survive brutal trials that crush body and will, face cadets thirsting for vengeance, and endure a final exam where survival itself becomes a cruel gamble.As the secrets of war claw into the light, loyalties shatter, truth becomes a weapon, and lies a shield.Maela slips. Her grip on reality blurs as her nightmares begin to bleed into the waking world.