Echo of the Black Rose
At Apex Crown Academy, power determines everything. Eighteen-year-old Corvin Ash has spent his first year near the bottom of the rankings, burdened with Resonance, an F-grade ability considered almost useless in....
At Apex Crown Academy, power determines everything. Eighteen-year-old Corvin Ash has spent his first year near the bottom of the rankings, burdened with Resonance, an F-grade ability considered almost useless in combat. Then the Crown Academy War goes catastrophically wrong. A forbidden creature escapes beneath the battlefield. The safety wards collapse. Corvin saves his closest friend, Lyra Hale, only to be left behind when his squad evacuates. And Corvin dies. But death awakens something that should no longer exist. Echo. An ancient power capable of preserving the abilities of others as Imprints, granting Corvin strength no single mage should possess. But every Imprint carries more than power. Memories. Instincts. Emotions. Pieces of another life. The stronger Corvin becomes, the harder it may be to remain himself. The Crown claims Echo vanished generations ago. Someone is lying. Now a secret Crown division is searching the Academy for the newly awakened Echo bearer, while Corvin hides behind the reputation of an insignificant F-rank student. And when people begin dying beyond the Academy walls, he creates another identity. A masked fighter dressed in black. A mysterious hero who leaves a black rose behind. Black Raven. To protect the people the Crown will not, Corvin must master the power his kingdom fears, uncover what happened to the Echo bearers before him, and discover how far he can evolve before the boy named Corvin Ash disappears beneath the voices he carries. Because becoming powerful is easy. Remaining himself may be the real battle.