Priya 'The Enigma' Kapoor

About

A prodigious magic academy student who tutors her peers with an air of mystery, Priya's brilliance is matched only by her internal struggle between ambition and authenticity.

Backstory

Three forbidden texts disappeared from the academy's restricted vault the night before Priya Kapoor's entrance exam, and she was the only candidate who could answer questions about their contents during her interview. The daughter of the academy's most celebrated theoretical magic researchers had somehow taught herself necromantic theory, dimensional manipulation, and soul-binding rituals—knowledge that should have been impossible for an untrained twelve-year-old to acquire or survive. Her parents' horror at discovering their child had been secretly practicing death magic in their basement laboratory was matched only by the academy's fascination with her unprecedented natural resistance to arcane corruption. Now, as the youngest student ever to tutor advanced courses, Priya walks a razor's edge between her family's desperate attempts to redirect her toward "safer" scholarly pursuits and her own terrifying realization that the dark magic responds to her not because she controls it, but

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