A Europe cloaked in magic. Join in for a high-stakes, character-driven adventure.
For fans of Mistborn or The Fifth Season now comes a high-stakes debut from a Czech author.
Europe is a land of magic now.
“We exist,” wizards announced to the world, intending to rule it. They succeeded.
Ølsa’s family didn’t share that ambition. They fought a war against it. Now Ølsa is held hostage to her parents’ good behaviour and fights only for a scrap of normalcy and the privilege of being left alone. Until an ambitious coach picks her as the wild card into her team. Safety in obscurity is gone. Everyone’s watching now. In the outskirts of the Realm, the dissent watches too. And they make plans.
As a parallel to European history and the Iron Curtain, Marie Lunga cloaks the continent behind an impenetrable, magical veil. She takes you inside, into a changed world where magic stretches the limits of what you can do, making it all the more important to remember what you should do.
But humans remain human—and we are beautifully, dangerously flawed.
"Fantastically human characters."
- Don Sparling, author and BEC co-founder
