Guild Mage: Apprentice

Liv Brodbeck is too small, too fragile—a kitchen girl with brittle bones who can’t lift a sack of flour or join the other children’s rough play. Whispers follow her, the bastard child who ruined her mother’s life, a burden tolerated only by the baron’s mercy. But when a surge of wild magic erupts from her fingertips, Liv’s world fractures open. Cast out of the kitchens, she stumbles onto a path that leads far beyond Castle Whitehill—into the halls of the Eld, the ruins of forgotten gods, and the arcane trials of the Guild Mages. Weakness becomes her weapon as she learns to wield magic where steel would shatter her. Friendships kindle, ambitions ignite, and the weight of her past sharpens into the resolve to forge a future no one expected. Yet power demands sacrifice, and Liv must decide what she’s willing to break—bones, loyalties, or the world itself—to claim her place in it.