Queen of the Monsters

Mara Vey, branded the academy's weakest student, discovers a terrifying truth: her magic doesn't release, it receives. When a dead rat falls from her sleeve, then a monstrous guttermaw attacks, she finds herself bound to these defeated creatures, drawing them into a hidden realm only she can access. With her scholarship on the line and a mysterious metal knot burning beneath her skin, Mara must navigate a world that despises her lack of power, all while secretly amassing an impossible army of the very monsters she's meant to hunt. But as the city's ancient foundations stir, will her growing legion be her salvation or her ultimate undoing?

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