The Moonscorn Mandate

Arrogant initiate Annamaria "Ria" Moonscorn enrolls at the prestigious Radcliffe Academy of Magic. Born into an ancient and wealthy bloodline of powerful magicians, she was raised to believe herself exceptional.

She isn't.

Ria struggles with even the most basic spells, failing publicly and often. Humiliation crudes into resentment, and resentment into violence. She survives by tearing others down-most of all her roommate, Cassandra. What begins as bullying hardens into something far more intimate and corrosive: a relationship built on fear, dependency, and magical brainwashing.

When buried prophecies stir and demonic conspiracies begin to surface, the academy descends into catastrophe. Amid the ensuing chaos, Ria's only refuge is a sentient grimoire-ancient, hungry, and alive. It offers her the power to rewrite reality itself, seeking not an owner, but a conduit.

Told through the unreliable first-person voice of a narcissistic sadist, this is a descend from the cold, gothic cruelty of an elite school of magic into nihilistic violence, cosmic horror, and the slow annihilation of self. Power is attainable.

But at what cost?