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The Academy of The Ascendant - Book 1 Marked by Starlight
Last Updated : 2025-05-20
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She was never meant to survive their world. Now she’s the only one who can burn it down. Lyra thought she was just a girl with strange dreams and a birthmark that shimmered beneath moonlight. But when a celestial event rips her from Earth and drops her into the brutal halls of the Academy of the Ascendant, she discovers a deadly truth: she’s the lost heir of a realm that erased her bloodline—and she’s carrying the forbidden magic that could unravel it all. The Academy is ruled by power and hierarchy. The weak are crushed. The strong ascend. And the Triad—three elite heirs born of elemental fire, storm, and air—will do anything to break her. Until they realize she’s more powerful than all of them. Mocked. Hunted. Desired. As Lyra unlocks the four elemental affinities no student should possess, she becomes the center of a prophecy that the Council has killed to keep buried. But it’s the fifth element—the forbidden Void—that marks her for something more. Survival means mastering her magic. Love could cost her everything. And rebellion might just start with a kiss. Perfect for fans of Zodiac Academy, Throne of Glass, and The Cruel Prince, Marked by Starlight is the explosive first book in a dark fantasy romance series filled with elemental magic, enemies-to-lovers heat, and a heroine who refuses to bow.
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The Academy of The Ascendant - Book 1 Marked by Starlight Chapter Thirty – Trial of Claim
(Lyra’s POV)They waited until the morning bell to make their move.A summons posted in the mess hall. Not discreet. Not private.It hung like a threat, stamped in the violet wax of House Caelaris, a noble line aligned with the High Council since before the Void wars. They bore no Dorm flag. Only lineage.“Petition for Expulsion: Claim of Illegitimacy Against Lyra Solstice.”The parchment shimmered with runes of tradition — and insult.Whispers stirred like wind through dry grass.“She’s being challenged.”“She brought Void into the Academy.”“House Caelaris wouldn’t move without cause.”I stood in front of the scroll, expression blank, pulse steady.So they weren’t just whispering anymore.They wanted me gone.The Council Hall felt colder that day. Not because of the mountain’s breath, or the stones etched with history — but because of attention.Every student who could get a seat lined the stone benches. Professors stood along the upper rails. Even the Headmistress watched from her
Last Updated : 2025-05-20The Academy of The Ascendant - Book 1 Marked by Starlight Chapter Twenty-Nine – Name of the Forgotten Flame
(Lyra’s POV)It began with a summons.A sealed scroll left at the foot of my bed. No crest. No wax. No warning. Just a single line of ink scrawled across the parchment:“Come to the Starlight Records before the final bell.”No signature. No explanation.But I felt it.In my bones.In my blood.Something was coming.And it had my name.The Starlight Records was the oldest wing of the academy — a place older than any House crest, older than the first Trial of Convergence. It was said that the stones themselves remembered.No magic passed through its doors without permission. No spellwork could shield what it held. Not even the Triad dared disturb its walls lightly.I walked the halls in silence.The air was colder here, as if the breath of ancient bloodlines still lingered. The stone floors had been worn smooth by centuries of footsteps — heirs, traitors, queens.When I arrived, the door creaked open on its own.No guards.No escort.Inside stood one figure: the Archivist.I had seen he
Last Updated : 2025-05-20The Academy of The Ascendant - Book 1 Marked by Starlight Chapter Twenty-Eight – A New Gravity
(Lyra’s POV)Something had changed.I felt it before I saw it. In the way people looked at me. In the way silence filled the spaces I entered. Not the silence of suspicion.Respect. Or fear. Maybe both.By the third day after the archive trial with Talon, it became obvious.I wasn’t being followed.I was being watched.The first time it happened, I was crossing the courtyard near the training decks. A group of second-year students parted for me. Not because I asked them to. Not because of rank.Because they knew.The Trial. The flames. The whispered news of the restricted archive.I hadn’t said a word about it.But secrets didn’t last in the academy.Especially not mine.I caught a few of their expressions as I passed: wary, awed, confused. Like they weren’t sure whether I was one of them anymore — or something else entirely.A girl reborn in fire.“Is that her?” one of them whispered, not quietly enough.“She’s the one who walked through the Convergence Trial alone.”“She melted the
Last Updated : 2025-05-20The Academy of The Ascendant - Book 1 Marked by Starlight Chapter Twenty-Seven – The Archive Trial
(Talon’s POV)I knew she’d come here.She moved like she thought the shadows obeyed her.They didn’t.But they tolerated her more than most.I stood between the stacks of the restricted archive, half-shrouded behind a shelf of runes I hadn’t read in years. The candles cast long, low glows on the stone, just enough to reveal the curve of her shoulder as she slipped past the locked gate.No hesitation.No fear.Just quiet, deliberate rebellion.She reached the central podium and scanned the glyph-etched rings, fingers hovering just above the surface.She didn’t touch it.Yet.“You’re two breaths away from triggering a ten-layer lockdown,” I said.She spun around.Not startled.Not exactly.“You followed me.”I stepped forward. “You’re in a forbidden sector.”“So are you.”“I have clearance.”She folded her arms. “Then why wait until I crossed the line?”“Because I wanted to see if you’d hesitate.”I took another step. Her mark pulsed faintly in the torchlight.“You didn’t.”She didn’t b
Last Updated : 2025-05-20The Academy of The Ascendant - Book 1 Marked by Starlight Chapter Twenty-Six – Burn It Clean
(Lyra’s POV)I didn’t sleep after Riven left.His story clung to my skin like storm-soaked linen. The truths he’d buried, the Council’s experiments, the branding, the silence — it all lived just under the surface now, humming beneath my ribs like a storm yet to break.He’d said I had a choice.He was wrong.There was no choice left.Not if I wanted to survive.Not if I wanted to stay me.So I made a decision.If the academy wanted me broken — they’d get something else entirely.They’d get me lit.The training rings were empty at dawn.I liked it that way.No spectators. No whispers. Just space — and heat.I walked barefoot across the obsidian floor, the cold licking at my soles until I stepped into the center ring and summoned flame to my hand.It came easier now.Not gentle. Not passive. Fire wasn’t meant to be.It danced over my fingers like it was waiting.Cassian had shown me what it felt like to be consumed. What happened when you didn’t fear heat — when you let it lick, singe, c
Last Updated : 2025-05-20The Academy of The Ascendant - Book 1 Marked by Starlight Chapter Twenty-Five – What the Thunder Remembers
(Riven’s POV)I felt it before I saw her.The thread of fire curling under my skin, the pressure behind my eyes.The bond between her and Cassian had formed. Not complete. Not sealed like prophecy said it would be. But it was enough to light up the ley lines like a warning bell only I could hear.It wasn’t jealousy.It was the knowing.Knowing that everything was shifting. That she had stepped into the fire and walked out wanting more.I leaned against the rail at the top of the west wing overlook, watching the ring below where Lyra stood in the early light. She didn’t look broken. Not like she had after the Trial. No, this time, she looked… sharpened. Like a blade finished on the whetstone of someone else’s hands.And the mark on her wrist was still glowing faintly, even in daylight.Part of me wanted to go to her.Another part of me wanted to turn away.Because the closer I let myself get, the more of me she seemed to see.By midday, she had vanished.But I knew where she would go.
Last Updated : 2025-05-20
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