Where do you turn when even the light denies you?Adrian has spent his life pretending he doesn't care. About power. About belonging. About the truth of who he is.So when he arrives at Mystalia Academy with no noble crest, no family legacy, and no gift worth boasting of, he is a nobody destined to be overlooked among students who measure themselves by bloodline and brilliance.Until the silence around him breaks.Mocked and dragged into rivalries he never wanted, Adrian is pushed to the edge-where buried secrets claw free, and power takes on a life of its own.But when a duel against a favored heir threatens to reveal a magic too great for him to hold, Adrian must choose: remain in obscurity, or risk everything on a truth never meant to be his.Some legacies are inherited. Others are stolen. And some are born in shadow.Book One of the Hollow Thread Quartet