Larinne

“It was something their mother had always said to them: the council sees your position, not your face. Anything you gave of yourself was a weapon to be used against you.”

Larinne knows more than anyone that the real power in Amoria isn’t magic. As a member of the mage Senate, Larinne has wielded that other kind of power most of her life. She knows how to lever the council’s attention, when a smile or stern word is needed, and she has never been one to suffer fools.

But now the city she knows so well is changing. The people she’s worked with and respected her whole life are turning to the poisonous influence of an old classmate of Larinne’s, Allyn Oriven. Lines are being drawn in the sand and decisions are being made in backrooms and dark corners. Amoria is teetering on the brink of civil war. Larinne keeps turning back to the Senate, wanting to resolve this peacefully and by the book, but will that be enough? Even her sister is changing, and now her oldest friend, Haelius Akana, is skirting closer and closer to disaster.

The Outcast Mage by Annabel Campbell released January 2025.