The Shadow Age #1
Ace
March 2024
On Sale: March 5, 2024
Featuring: Benedict Strom; Petra Grady
464 pages ISBN: 0593437470 EAN: 9780593437476 Kindle: B0BVTDZDRT Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook Add to Wish List
Luck is its own kind of magic, in this first book in an electrifying new contemporary fantasy series from the author of the #1Β New York TimesΒ bestselling Hollows novels.
Petra Grady has known since adolescence that she has no talent for magicβand thatβs never going to change. But as a sweeper first-class, sheβs parlayed her rare ability to handle drossβthe damaging, magical waste generated by her more talented kinβs spellworkβinto a decent life working at the magesβ university.
Except Gradyβs relatively predictable life is about to be upended. When the oblivious, sexy, and oh-so-out-of-reach Benedict Strom needs someone with her abilities for a research project studying dross and how to render it harmless, sheβs stuck working on his teamβwhether she wants to or not.
Only Benedict doesnβt understand the characteristics of dross like Grady does. After an unthinkable accident, she and Benedict are forced to go on the run to seek out the one person who might be able to help: an outcast exiled ten years ago for the crime of using dross to cast spells. Now Grady must decide whether to stick with the magical status quo or embrace her own hidden talents . . . and risk shattering their entire world.