ASCENDANT OF THE LIVING SHADOW (The Academy of Midnight Arts Trilogy Book 2)

Scott McKenzie’s second year in the realms’ greatest arcane university was meant to be a fresh start. Instead, it becomes the year he learns what it means to be feared by the living, hunted by the dead, and watched by gods.When a legion of Ork-Giants descends upon Umbrafell, Scott’s fragile control over his shard collapses. The dead rise at his command. Spectral wolves, Cullen knights, and fallen spirits march in a necromantic army that terrifies even his allies. But the cost is catastrophic: Scott unleashes Gravemaw, the forbidden grave-beast, and devours a giant warlord in front of the entire school.The shard grows.The Veil cracks.And the First Dead—the ancient rulers of death itself—reach through, trying to claim Scott as their Bridge, a living conduit to cross into the world of the living. In a shattering confrontation within the realm-between-realms, they almost seize him.Almost. Read more