A Fate So Cold

Of the three hundred and eighty-six wands in the nation of Alderland, Valmordion is the most famous and the most feared. Tremendously powerful and unspeakably dangerous, it has only bonded with a magician when a great cataclysm looms on the horizon. Now, for the first time in over two centuries, it has awakened once more.

Domenic Barrow has witnessed the price of power firsthand and sworn never to seek it—but destiny hasn’t granted him a choice. After Domenic is forced to submit himself as a candidate to wield Valmordion, he is horrified when the great wand chooses him.

Ellery Caldwell has spent a lifetime diligently striving for a…